Of latitudes unknown : James Baldwin's radical imagination / edited by Alice Mikal Craven and William E. Dow ; associate editor, Yoko Nakamura.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Craven, Alice Mikal, editor.

Dow, William (William E.), editor.

Nakamura, Yoko, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Baldwin, James, 1924-1987--Political and social views.

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

Baldwin, James, 1924-1987.

Criticism and interpretation.

Political and social views.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

x, 257 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.

Summary:

"This volume analyzes tributaries of James Baldwin's political and social critique, revalorizing his use of visual forms as well as scrutinizing the connections between his literary journalism and his other works"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Foreword. The death of the prophet / Douglas Field

Introduction. Baldwin's radical imagination / Alice Mikal Craven and William E. Dow

Black bodies on screen, white privilege in Hollywood : James Baldwin on Lang and Preminger / Alice Mikal Craven

Picturing Jimmy, picturing self : James Baldwin, Beauford Delaney, and the color of light / James Smalls

Lessons in light : Beauford Delaney's and James Baldwin's "Unnameable objects" / Tyler T. Schmidt

"To end the racial nightmare, and achieve our country" : James Baldwin and the US civil rights movement / Kathy Roberts Forde

The documentary tradition in James Baldwin's Ecriture vérité / Isabelle Meuret

Journeys of the "I" in James Baldwin's literary-journalistic essays / William E. Dow

French Baldwin (on screen) : "Le criminel artiste" / Claudine Raynaud

The terror within : Giovanni's room, L'étranger, and the possibility of an absurd heroism / Timothy McGinnis

James Baldwin's black power : No name in the street, Fanon, Camus, and the Black Panthers / James Miller

Continuing a legacy : James Baldwin, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and the African American witness / Marcus Bruce

Baldwin, the "Arab," and the end of the West / Bill V. Mullen

Effective/defective James Baldwin / Robert F. Reid-Pharr.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Of latitudes unknown

ISBN:

9781501337710

1501337718

OCLC:

1031336934