The Cambridge companion to James Baldwin
By: edited by Michele Elam, Stanford University
Series: Cambridge companions to literature; Cambridge companions to literature
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9781107043039; 9781107618183
Subjects: African Americans in literature; Criticism and interpretation
Other titles: James Baldwin
Description: 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, at times controversially, eschewed titles and classifications of all kinds. Thirteen original 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 assumes new urgency. -- from back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Baldwin's art  -- Michele Elam; title: "Closer to something unnameable" : James Baldwin's art of the novel  -- Jacqueline Goldsby; title: James Baldwin's poetics  -- Meta Duewa Jones; title: Go tell it on the mountain : the sermonic in the works of James Baldwin  -- Soyica Diggs Colbert; title: Paying dues and playing the blues : James Baldwin's existential jazz motif  -- Radiclani Clytus; title: Baldwin's theatre  -- E. Patrick Johnson; title: Baldwin's humor  -- Danielle Heard; title: James Baldwin and Yoran Cazac's "Child's story for adults"  -- Nicholas Boggs; title: Baldwin's collaborations  -- Brian Norman; title: Baldwin and black leadership  -- Erica R. Edwards; title: "As though a metaphor were tangible" : James Baldwin and identity  -- Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman; title: Baldwin and the occasion of love  -- Christopher Freeburg; title: James Baldwin's FBI files as political biography  -- Douglas Field; title: Domesticating James Baldwin's global imagination  -- Magdalena J. Zaborowska; title: Coda: the heart of Baldwin -- Quentin Miller.