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Baldwin, James - 1924–87, American author, b. New York City. He spent an impoverished boyhood in Harlem and at 14 became a preacher in the Fireside Pentecostal Church. His first two novels, Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953), reflecting his experience as a young preacher, and Giovanni's Room (1956), which dealt with his homosexuality, were written while he lived in Paris. He returned to the

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The Evidence of Things Not Said: James Baldwin and the Promise of American Democracy » Read Now
by Lawrie Balfour. 192 pgs.

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The Racial Problem in the Works of Richard Wright and James Baldwin » Read Now
by Jean-Francois Gounard, Joseph J. Rodgers Jr. 303 pgs.

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Both writers reflect the profound desire of black Americans to be recognized as first-class citizens: Wright aroused white America's conscience, Baldwin made that conscience experience guilt.
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Modern Black American Fiction Writers ("James Baldwin: 1924-1987" begins on p. 29) » Read Now
by Harold Bloom. 167 pgs.

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Of Dreams Deferred, Dead or Alive: African Perspectives on African-American Writers (Chap. 8 "Notions and Nuances: Africa in the Works of James Baldwin") » Read Now
by Femi Ojo-Ade. 196 pgs.

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This is the first collection of essays in which African critics present an in-depth study of African-American writers. These prominent critics from different African countries and backgrounds bring an important perspective to the complex relationship between African Americans and Africa. Through...
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This is the first collection of essays in which African critics present an in-depth study of African-American writers. These prominent critics from different African countries and backgrounds bring an important perspective to the complex relationship between African Americans and Africa. Through provocative readings of prominent African-American writers, the contributors provide insights into contemporary African-American issues. This collection offers a rare opportunity to view African opinions on what it means to be African American.
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The Apocalypse in African-American Fiction (Chap. 4 "James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain") » Read Now
by Maxine Lavon Montgomery. 118 pgs.

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In this exploration of the relationship between biblical apocalypse and black fiction, Maxine Montgomery argues that American writers see apocalyptic events in an intermediate and secular sense, as a tenable response to racial oppression. This work analyzes the characters, plots, and themes of seven novels that rely on the apocalyptic trope.
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Homosexuality in Cold War America: Resistance and the Crisis of Masculinity (Chap. 6 "A Negative Relation to One's Culture: James Baldwin and the Homophobic Politics of Form") » Read Now
by Robert J. Corber. 246 pgs.

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Challenging widely held assumptions about postwar gay male culture and politics, Homosexuality in Cold War America examines how gay men in the 1950s resisted pressures to remain in the closet. Robert J. Corber argues that a form of gay male identity emerged in the 1950s that simultaneously drew on...
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Challenging widely held assumptions about postwar gay male culture and politics, Homosexuality in Cold War America examines how gay men in the 1950s resisted pressures to remain in the closet. Robert J. Corber argues that a form of gay male identity emerged in the 1950s that simultaneously drew on and transcended left-wing opposition to the Cold War cultural and political consensus. Combining readings of novels, plays, and films of the period with historical research into the national security state, the growth of the suburbs, and postwar consumer culture, Corber examines how gay men resisted the "organization man" model of masculinity that rose to dominance in the wake of the Second World War.
By exploring the representation of gay men in film noir, Corber suggests that even as this Hollywood genre reinforced homophobic stereotypes, it legitimized the gay male "gaze". He emphasizes how film noir's introduction of homosexual characters countered the national "project" to render gay men invisible, and marked a deep subversion of the Cold War mentality. Corber then considers the work of gay male writers Tennessee Williams, Gore Vidal, and James Baldwin, demonstrating how these authors declined to represent homosexuality as a discrete subculture and instead promoted a model of political solidarity rooted in the shared experience of oppression.
Homosexuality in Cold War America reveals that the ideological critique of the dominant culture made by gay male authors of the 1950s laid the foundation for the gay liberation movement of the following decade. It will be of interest to a wide range of readers, including students and scholars in the fields of American literature, film, and gaystudies.
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The Eternal Adam and the New World Garden: The Central Myth in the American Novel since 1830 (Chap. VI "The Present: Norman Mailer, James Baldwin, Saul Bellow") » Read Now
by David W. Noble. 226 pgs.

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...and Elizabeth Katz and her paper on the writings of James Baldwin. My wife, Lois, has been always an invaluable editor...161 VI THE PRESENT Norman Mailer, James Baldwin...
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Parallel Perversions: Interracial and Same Sexuality in James Baldwin's Another Country, in MELUS » Read Now
by Stefanie Dunning. 18 pgs.

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Falling in Public: Larsen's Passing, McCarthy's the Group, and Baldwin's Another Country, in Studies in the Novel » Read Now
by Katy Ryan. 25 pgs.

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The Better James Baldwin, in New Criterion » Read Now
by Brooke Allen. 8 pgs.

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Out of and Back to Africa: James Baldwin's Go Tell It on the Mountain, in Christianity and Literature » Read Now
by Miriam Sivan. 13 pgs.

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The "Maw of Western Culture": James Baldwin and the Anxieties of Influence, in African American Review » Read Now
by Elise Miller. 12 pgs.

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Contemporary American Novelists ("Introducing James Baldwin" begins on p. 155 and "James Baldwin's Other Country" begins on p. 158) » Read Now
by Harry T. Moore. 238 pgs.

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...been interested in the work of James Baldwin, and has permitted us to reprint...Wesleyan College in 1962. James Baldwin is discussed at length in the...The authors...
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A Library of Literary Criticism: Modern American Literature (1960) ("Baldwin, James" begins on p. 32) » Read Now
by Dorothy Nyren. 554 pgs.

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...On Being Creative criticism . BALDWIN, JAMES 1924- Go Tell it on the...novel can this be said?--but James Baldwins critical judgments are perspicacious...effectively in the...