The Cambridge companion to James Baldwin / edited by Michele Elam, Stanford University.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Elam, Michele, editor.

Series:

Cambridge companions to literature.

Cambridge companions to literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Baldwin, James.

African Americans in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 246 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This Companion offers fresh insight into the art and politics of James Baldwin, one of the most important writers and provocative cultural critics of the twentieth century. Black, gay, and gifted, he was hailed as a 'spokesman for the race', although he personally, and controversially, eschewed titles and classifications of all kinds. Individual essays examine his classic novels and nonfiction as well as his work across lesser-examined domains: poetry, music, theatre, sermon, photo-text, children's literature, public media, comedy, and artistic collaboration. In doing so, The Cambridge Companion to James Baldwin captures the power and influence of his work during the civil rights era as well as his relevance in the 'post-race' transnational twenty-first century, when his prescient questioning of the boundaries of race, sex, love, leadership, and country assume new urgency.

Contents:

Introduction: Baldwin's art / Michele Elam

"Closer to something unnameable" : James Baldwin's art of the novel / Jacqueline Goldsby

James Baldwin's poetics / Meta Duewa Jones

Go tell it on the mountain : the sermonic in the works of James Baldwin / Soyica Diggs Colbert

Paying dues and playing the blues : James Baldwin's existential jazz motif / Radiclani Clytus

Baldwin's theatre / E. Patrick Johnson

Baldwin's humor / Danielle Heard

James Baldwin and Yoran Cazac's "Child's story for adults" / Nicholas Boggs

Baldwin's collaborations / Brian Norman

Baldwin and black leadership / Erica R. Edwards

"As though a metaphor were tangible" : James Baldwin and identity / Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman

Baldwin and the occasion of love / Christopher Freeburg

James Baldwin's FBI files as political biography / Douglas Field

Domesticating James Baldwin's global imagination / Magdalena J. Zaborowska

Coda: the heart of Baldwin / Quentin Miller.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781316234426

1316234428

9781316236314

1316236315

9781107337725

1107337720

OCLC:

1066304633