Richard Wright now tries to sharpen his conception of literary form and to work out the relationship between the techniques of fiction and the tenets of Marxism. He thus publishes his influential essay, "Blueprint for Negro Writing " as his own attempt to outlining a literary theory for black American writers. Blueprint was like a manifesto and declaration of independence from what he judged to be bourgeois literary forms and agendas long dominant in black letters. Distancing himself from the writings of the Harlem Renaissance, Wright urges black writers to embrace a Marxist conception of reality and society which offers in his judgment the "maximum degree of freedom in thought and feeling ...for the Negro writer" that would even transcend nationalism.
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