A Historical Guide to James Baldwin
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 19 November 2009
- ISBN 9780195366532
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages272 pages
- Size 145x211x20 mm
- Weight 408 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 27 black and white halftones 0
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With contributions from major scholars of African American literature, history, and cultural studies, A Historical Guide to James Baldwin focuses on the four tumultous decades that defined the great author's life and art. Providing a comprehensive examination of Baldwin's varied body of work that includes short stories, novels, and polemical essays, this collection reflects the major events that left an indelible imprint on the iconic writer: civil rights, black nationalism and the struggle for gay rights in the pre- and post-Stonewall eras. The essays will also highlight Baldwin's under-studied role as a trans-Atlantic writer, his lifelong struggle with faith, and his use of music, especially the blues, as a key to unlock the mysteries of his identity as an exile, an artist, and a black American in a racially hostile era.
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With contributions from major scholars of African American literature, history, and cultural studies, A Historical Guide to James Baldwin focuses on the four tumultous decades that defined the great author's life and art. Providing a comprehensive examination of Baldwin's varied body of work that includes short stories, novels, and polemical essays, this collection reflects the major events that left an indelible imprint on the iconic writer: civil rights, black nationalism and the struggle for gay rights in the pre- and post-Stonewall eras. The essays will also highlight Baldwin's under-studied role as a trans-Atlantic writer, his lifelong struggle with faith, and his use of music, especially the blues, as a key to unlock the mysteries of his identity as an exile, an artist, and a black American in a racially hostile era.
A Historical Guide to James Baldwin is welcome and timely. It caps a decade of renewed interest in this major twentieth-century figure and sets the terms of debate for the decade to come. Moreover, as a Baldwin scholar and a student in an undergraduate seminar on Baldwin, we can testify to how it speaks to scholars at all levels and lends itself to course adoption...This collection belongs on the shelf of any Baldwin scholar, student, or aficionado.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
Douglas Field
James Baldwin, 1924-1987: A Brief Biography
Randall Kenan
BALDWIN IN HIS TIME
James Baldwin as Religious Writer: The Burdens
and Gifts of Black Evangelicalism
Clarence E. Hardy III
Using the Blues: Baldwin and Music
D. Quentin Miller
James Baldwin and Sexuality:
Lieux de Mémoire within a Usable Past
Justin A. Joyce & Dwight A. McBride
Challenging the American Conscience,
Re-imagining American Identity:
James Baldwin and the Civil Rights Movement
Lynn Orilla Scott
"In the Same Boat': James Baldwin
and the Other Atlantic
Magdalena J. Zaborowska
Illustrated Chronology
Bibliographic Essay:
The Price of the Ticket:
Baldwin Criticism in Perspective
Carol E. Henderson
