James Baldwin /
Studying all of Baldwin's writings--from his early essaysto Just Above My Head, his latest novel--Sylvander shows how Balwin has drawn on his early struggles to produce a passionate and humane body of work
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Ungar,
1980
New York : [1980], ©1980 New York : c1980 |
| Series: | Modern literature series
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Table of Contents:
- Noteworthy Native sons
- Nonfiction: "One cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own
- "Im ready," "I'm coming," "I'm on my way": Go tell it on the mountain
- "Making love in the midst of morrors": Giovanni's room and another country
- "You can say I'm the girl, or the boy, or their unborn child": Tell me how long the train's been gone and if Beale Street could talk
- The Coommunion which is the theater": The Amen Corner, Blues for Mister Charlie, and One Day, When I was lost
- Charting racism in America, 1945-1965: Going to meet the man
- "I hear music in the air": Just above my head
- Critical sources; afterword