A historical guide to James Baldwin
Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
A historical guide to James Baldwin
（Historical guides to American authors）
Oxford University Press, 2009
- : pbk
Related Bibliography 1 items
Available at 1 libraries
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- ABBREVIATIONS
- DOUGLAS FIELD
- RANDALL KENAN
- BALDWIN IN HIS TIME
- AND GIFTS OF BLACK EVANGELICALISM
- CLARENCE E. HARDY III
- D. QUENTIN MILLER
- LIEUX DE MEMOIRE WITHIN A USABLE PAST
- JUSTIN A. JOYCE & DWIGHT A. MCBRIDE
- RE-IMAGINING AMERICAN IDENTITY:
- JAMES BALDWIN AND THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
- LYNN ORILLA SCOTT
- 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
by "Nielsen BookData"