ABSTRACT
As an American in Europe, then as a black Westerner touring Africa, Richard Wright was significantly enthusiastic about extensive issues concerning identity, the psychology of oppression, and modernity as opposed to irrationalism. Wright's transnational trilogy displays that race can be a decisive factor. Rather than enabling extreme nationalist Western philosophies to deplete transnational philosophy, Wright incorporates the two philosophies, given that he views them as revealing most of the same presumption of hope. The imaginary mapping created during the early modern period, with the rise of colonialism and the nation-state itself, has motivated the strategies in which Wright thinks of himself in relation to people in other spaces around the globe. This perspective is clearly observed in his Black Power, The Color Curtain, and Pagan Spain. In the transnational trilogy, Wright's debate of transnationalism often signifies that national boundaries are remarkably permeable, considering that they track the migration of ideas and people across such borders.
