Critical insights : James Baldwin / [editor, Morris Dickstein].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dickstein, Morris, editor.

Series:

Critical insights

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Baldwin, James, 1924-1987--Criticism and interpretation.

Baldwin, James.

Baldwin, James, 1924-1987.

African Americans in literature.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

polychrome

Other Title:

Critical Insights James Baldwin

Place of Publication:

Pasadena, Calif. : Salem Press, [2010]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Contents:

On James Baldwin / Morris Dickstein

Biography of James Baldwin / Barry Mann

The Paris review perspective / Richard Beck for The Paris review

James Baldwin in his time / Douglas Field

Exiled in Paris: the beginnings / James Campbell

"This web of lust and fury": Harriet Beecher Stowe, James Baldwin's nineteenth-century white mother / Horace A. Porter

Faith in verse and fiction: James Baldwin's, Phillis Wheatley's, Octavia E. Butler's, and Tananarive Due's creation of a peaceful space / Mildred R. Mickle

James Baldwin's critical reception / D. Quentin Miller

Looking for Jimmy Baldwin: sex, privacy, and black nationalist fervor / Douglas Field

The tale of two cities in James Baldwin's Go tell it on the mountain / Charles Scruggs

The treacherous body: isolation, confession, and community in James Baldwin / Peter Kerry Powers

Subversive anti-Stalinism: race and sexuality in the early essays of James Baldwin / Geraldine Murphy

"Sonny's blues": James Baldwin's image of black community / John M. Reilly

The queering of memory: nostalgia and desire in Baldwin's "Going to meet the man" / Tiffany Gilbert

On James Baldwin's Another country / Lionel Trilling

James Baldwin and the "man" / F. W. Dupee

The committed writer: James Baldwin as dramatist / C. W. E. Bigsby

If the street could talk: James Baldwin's search for love and understanding / Yoshinobu Hakutani

Bearing the burden of the blues: If Beale Street could talk / Trudier Harris

The fire last time / Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

The magic of James Baldwin / Darryl Pinckney

James Baldwin: the risks of love / Darryl Pinckney.

Notes:

Title from Salem literature Web page (viewed on Dec. 3, 2010).

Includes bibliographical references.

OCLC:

689055154

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