James Baldwin : America and beyond / edited by Cora Kaplan and Bill Schwarz.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kaplan, Cora.

Schwarz, Bill, 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans in literature.

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

Baldwin, James.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 259 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

An interdisciplinary discussion of Baldwin by leading writers from several fields.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Introduction: America and Beyond - Cora Kaplan and Bill Schwarz

Part 1. What It Means to Be an American

1. Stranger at Home. James Baldwin on What It Means to Be an American - Cheryl A. Wall

2. Baldwin and "the American Confusion" - Colm Tóibín

3. "Over and Over and Over Again". James Baldwin, Uncle Tom's Cabin, and the Afterlife of an American Story- Briallen Hopper

4. "Now Describing You". James Baldwin and Cold War Liberalism - Vaughn Rasberry

5. Baldwin, Prophecy, and Politics -George Shulman

6. Rendezvous with Life. Reading Early and Late Baldwin - Robert Reid-Pharr

Part 2. Stranger in the Village

7. "History's Ass Pocket". The Sources of Baldwinian Diaspora - Kevin Birmingham

8. Separate and Unequal in Paris. Notes of a Native Son and the Law - D. Quentin Miller

9. Exile and the Private Life. James Baldwin, George Lamming, and the First World Congress of Negro Writers and Artists - Kevin Gaines

10. From Istanbul to St. Paul-de-Vence. Around James Baldwin's The Welcome Table - Magdalena J. Zaborowska

11. What Is Africa to Baldwin? Cultural Illegitimacy and the Step-fatherland - Douglas Field

12. James Baldwin and Chinua Achebe. Transgressing Official Vocabularies - Eleanor W. Traylor

Afterword - Hortense Spillers

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-33432-1

9786613334329

0-472-02761-1

OCLC:

761223488