num_pages: 172
description: 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.
language: English
title: New Essays on Go Tell It on the Mountain
titlecomplete: New Essays on Go Tell It on the Mountain (The American Novel)
genres: Nonfiction
ratings_count: 5
series: The American Novel
publisher: Cambridge University Press