James Baldwin : Challenging Authors / edited by A. Scott Henderson, Paul Lee Thomas.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Henderson, A. Scott, Editor.

Thomas, Paul Lee., Editor.

Series:

Critical Literacy Teaching Series: Challenging Authors and Genre

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education.

Local Subjects:

Education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (223 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2014.

Place of Publication:

Rotterdam : SensePublishers : Imprint: SensePublishers, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"The recognition and study of African American (AA) artists and public intellectuals often include Martin Luther King, Jr., and occasionally Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, and Malcolm X. The literary canon also adds Ralph Ellison, Richard White, Langston Hughes, and others such as female writers Zora Neale Hurston, Maya Angelou, and Alice Walker. Yet, the acknowledgement of AA artists and public intellectuals tends to skew the voices and works of those included toward normalized portrayals that fit wellwithin foundational aspects of the American myths refl ected in and perpetuated by traditional schooling. Further, while many AA artists and public intellectuals are distorted by mainstream media, public and political characterizations, and the curriculum, several powerful AA voices are simply omitted, ignored, including James Baldwin. This edited volume gathers a collection of essays from a wide range of perspectives that confront Baldwin’s impressive and challenging canon as well as his role as a public intellectual. Contributors also explore Baldwin as a confrontational voice during his life and as an enduring call for justice.".

Contents:

Preliminary Material / A. Scott Henderson and P.L. Thomas

Introduction / P.L. Thomas

Conversion Calls for Confrontation / McKinley E. Melton

Why Theater, Mr. Baldwin? / Susan Watson Turner

Baldwin in South Africa / Hugo M. Canham

From James’ Portrait to Baldwin’s Room / Dwan Henderson Simmons

Another Country / Sion Dayson

Feeling in Radical Consciousness / Jeffrey Santa Ana

James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time and the Jeremiad Tradition / James Tackach

James Baldwin / Charles Reese

Uplift Versus Upheaval / A. Scott Henderson

The Agitating Power of Nonviolent Cool in “Going to Meet the Man” / Beazley Kanost

James Baldwin vs. William Buckley, Jr. for the Soul of America / Seneca Vaught

James Baldwin’s Gospel of Postcategorical Love / Pekka Kilpeläinen

“Fame Is the Spur and—Ouch!” / Jacqueline Jones Compaore

“Digging through the Ruins” / Ernest L. Gibson III

Author Biographies / A. Scott Henderson and P.L. Thomas.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

ISBN:

9789462096196

9462096198

OCLC:

880137696