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James Baldwin : the life album / Magdalena J. Zaborowska.
Van Pelt Library PS3552.A45 Z956 2025
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zaborowska, Magdalena J., author.
- Series:
- Black lives (Yale University Press)
- Black lives
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Authors, American--20th century--Biography.
- Authors, American.
- African American authors--Biography.
- African American authors.
- Baldwin, James, 1924-1987.
- Baldwin, James.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 297 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2025]
- Summary:
- Written with elan by a leading scholar on the life and work of James Baldwin, Zaborowska's fresh study is a gripping portrait of one of the twentieth century's most insightful writers.
- Contents:
- Introduction: I thought I'd hit the jackpot!
- Side A. Overture ; In my mother's kitchen ; Sissy boys don't belong ; At the blackboard
- Side B. Through the door of my lips ; The prince and his spiritual father ; Letters to Jewish editors ; A lover's kiss is a very strange event
- Side C. Because my house fell down and I can't live there no more ; I am all those strangers and a woman, too ; Traveling through the country of the self ; The houses of Baldwin
- Side D. Coda chez Baldwin
- Chronology.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780300262209
- 0300262205
- OCLC:
- 1449674734
- Publisher Number:
- 90101609296
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