James Baldwin : America and beyond
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James Baldwin : America and beyond
University of Michigan Press, 2011
- : pbk
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Note
Includes bibliographies and index
Contents of Works
- Stranger at home : James Baldwin on what it means to be an American / Cheryl A. Wall
- Baldwin and "the American confusion" / Colm Toibin
- "Over and over and over again" : James Baldwin, Uncle Tom's cabin, and the afterlife of an American story / Briallen Hopper
- "Now describing you" : James Baldwin and Cold War liberalism / Vaughn Rasberry
- Baldwin, prophecy, and politics / George Shulman
- Rendezvous with life : reading early and late Baldwin / Robert Reid-Pharr
- "History's ass pocket" : the sources of Baldwinian diaspora / Kevin Birmingham
- Separate and unequal in Paris : notes of a native son and the law / D. Quentin Miller
- Exile and the private life : James Baldwin, George Lamming, and the First World Congress of Negro Writers and Artists / Kevin Gaines
- From Istanbul to St. Paul-de-Vence : around James Baldwin's The welcome table / Magdalena Zaborowska
- What is Africa to Baldwin? cultural illegitimacy and the step-fatherland / Douglas Field
- James Baldwin and Chinua Achebe : transgressing official vocabularies / Eleanor W. Traylor
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This interdisciplinary collection by leading writers in their fields brings together a discussion of the many facets of James Baldwin, both as a writer and as the prophetic conscience of a nation. The core of the volume addresses the shifting, complex relations between Baldwin as an American-"as American as any Texas GI" as he once wryly put it-and his life as an itinerant cosmopolitan. His ambivalent imaginings of America were always mediated by his conception of a world "beyond" America: a world he knew both from his travels and from his voracious reading. He was a man whose instincts were, at every turn, nurtured by America; but who at the same time developed a ferocious critique of American exceptionalism. In seeking to understand how, as an American, he could learn to live with difference-breaking the power of fundamentalisms of all stripes-he opened an urgent, timely debate that is still ours. His America was an idea fired by desire and grief in equal measure. As the authors assembled here argue, to read him now allows us to imagine new possibilities for the future.
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