Patrick Chura

Dr. Patrick Chura teaches courses in nineteenth and twentieth-century American literature and culture studies at the University of Akron. He is the author of three books and has published articles on a variety of literary-historical topics. His book, Michael Gold: The People’s Writer, won the 2022 Literary Encyclopedia Book Prize and the Paul Cowan Award for Non-Fiction.

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Books

‘America on Fire’: A timely look at police violence and Black rebellion
July 8, 2021 By Patrick Chura
Violence will not end, the author asserts, until the nation stops expecting police to manage conditions that are beyond their control.
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Books

Richard Wright’s new novel ‘The Man Who Lived Underground’ surfaces
May 14, 2021 By Patrick Chura
The editors and manuscript readers at Harper found "The Man Who Lived Underground" unsettling; one of them described the novel’s first fifty pages, in which three white policemen torture an innocent black man, as “unbearable.”
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Patrick Chura

LATEST ARTICLES BY Patrick Chura

‘America on Fire’: A timely look at police violence and Black rebellion

Richard Wright’s new novel ‘The Man Who Lived Underground’ surfaces