A Historical Guide to James Baldwin,9780199710669

A Historical Guide to James Baldwin

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ISBN13: 9780199710669
ISBN10: 019971066X
Format: Nonspecific Binding
Pub. Date: 2009-09-24
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press Academic US
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Summary

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 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.

Author Biography


Douglas Field is Lecturer in Contemporary Literature, Staffordshire University, UK and he is the book review editor for Callaloo.

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 M?moire 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

Contributors
Index

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