New essays on Go tell it on the mountain / edited by Trudier Harris.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Harris, Trudier, editor.

Series:

American Novel.

The American novel

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Baldwin, James, 1924-1987. Go tell it on the mountain.

Baldwin, James.

African American churches in literature.

African American men in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 160 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

James Baldwin's first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain, has gained a wide readership and much critical acclaim since its publication in 1953. While most critics have seen it as focusing exclusively on the African American fundamentalist church and its effect on characters brought up within its tradition, these scholars posit that issues of homosexuality, the social construction of identity, anthropological conceptions of community, and the quest for an artistic identity provide more elucidating approaches to the novel. Trudier Harris's introduction traces the history of its composition and the critical responses after its eventual publication; Michael F. Lynch re-evaluates the religious centre of the novel; Bryan R. Washington argues that the text has much to do with the uncovering of sexual identity; Vivian M. May uncovers the shifting identities throughout the work; and Keith Clark explores the quest of the characters for male communitas.

Contents:

A Glimpse of the hidden god: dialectical visions in Baldwin's Go tell it on the mountain / Michael F. Lynch

The South in Go tell it on the mountain: Baldwin's personal confrontation / Horace Porter

Wrestling with 'The Love that dare not speak its name': John, Elisha, and the 'master' / Bryan R. Washington

Ambivalent narratives, fragmented selves: performative identities and the mutability of roles in James Baldwin's Go tell it on the mountain / Vivian M. May

Baldwin, communitas, and the Black masculinist tradition / Keith Clark.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-160).

ISBN:

1-139-16678-6

OCLC:

935277666