| Description |
xi, 455 pages ; 24 cm. |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Series |
Critical insights |
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Critical insights.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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"Works by James Baldwin": pages 436-437. |
| Contents |
On James Baldwin / Morris Dickstein -- Biography of James Baldwin / Barry Mann -- The Paris review perspective / Richard Beck for The Paris review -- James Baldwin in his time / Douglas Field -- Exiled in Paris: the beginnings / James Campbell -- "This web of lust and fury": Harriet Beecher Stowe, James Baldwin's nineteenth-century white mother / Horace A. Porter -- Faith in verse and fiction: James Baldwin's, Phillis Wheatley's, Octavia E. Butler's, and Tananarive Due's creation of a peaceful space / Mildred R. Mickle -- James Baldwin's critical reception / D. Quentin Miller -- Looking for Jimmy Baldwin: sex, privacy, and black nationalist fervor / Douglas Field -- The tale of two cities in James Baldwin's Go tell it on the mountain / Charles Scruggs -- The treacherous body: isolation, confession, and community in James Baldwin / Peter Kerry Powers -- Subversive anti-Stalinism: race and sexuality in the early essays of James Baldwin / Geraldine Murphy -- "Sonny's blues": James Baldwin's image of black community / John M. Reilly -- The queering of memory: nostalgia and desire in Baldwin's "Going to meet the man" / Tiffany Gilbert -- On James Baldwin's Another country / Lionel Trilling -- James Baldwin and the "man" / F.W. Dupee -- The committed writer: James Baldwin as dramatist / C.W.E. Bigsby -- If the street could talk: James Baldwin's search for love and understanding / Yoshinobu Hakutani -- Bearing the burden of the blues: If Beale Street could talk / Trudier Harris -- The fire last time / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- The magic of James Baldwin / Darryl Pinckney -- James Baldwin: the risks of love / Darryl Pinckney. |
| Summary |
A collection of essays relating to the life and writings of James Baldwin. |
| Subject |
Baldwin, James, 1924-1987 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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African Americans in literature.
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Baldwin, James, 1924-1987. (OCoLC)fst00038941
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African Americans in literature. (OCoLC)fst00799727
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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| Added Author |
Dickstein, Morris. Editor.
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| ISBN |
9781587657016 (alk. paper) |
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1587657015 (alk. paper) |
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