The protagonist of this novel "has accepted a theology that denies him life" according to an essay that traces its lineage from Uncle Tom's Cabin.
After turning down the lead in a stage adaptation of this novel, a character in a different story knocks over a candle at an Italian restaurant because he is angry about being thrown out of his Jewish friend Jules's apartment. That story was written by an author who claimed that this novel creates a "climate of anarchy and [an] unmotivated and un-apprehended disaster," noting the "overwhelming limitation" of the "fearful image" it "[attempts] to redeem... in social terms." The novel-within-a-novel Fuck from Percival Everett's Erasure parodies both Sapphire's Push and this novel. The protagonist of this novel "has accepted a theology that denies him life" according to an essay that traces its lineage from Uncle Tom's Cabin. This novel was criticized in "Many Thousands Gone" and "Everybody's Protest Novel," two essays in a James Baldwin collection of "notes" named for it. For 10 points, name this novel in which Mary Dalton is suffocated by Bigger Thomas, a work of Richard Wright.
After turning down the lead in a stage adaptation of this novel, a character in a different story knocks over a candle at an Italian restaurant because he is angry about being thrown out of his Jewish friend Jules's apartment.
Native Son