{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Black Existentialism","title":"Wright on Visibility, Death, and the Possibility of Black Life","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/7de8dadc\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1196,"description":"A discussion of Richard Wright's short story \"The Man Who Lived Underground,\" which explores themes of visibility, invisibility, life, freedom, and death. In this process piece, I think through the meaning of the underground as invisibility and freedom - with reference to Ralph Ellison's treatment of invisibility in Invisible Man - and the above ground as visibility, exposure to antiblack racism, and death.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/lw6o0WdZmlj6gtn6vop2ADRfgH-rBiKo1HN-19V_DjA/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzM4Mzg2LzE2NzUy/ODQwODMtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}