James Baldwin
Subtitle: America and beyond
By: edited by Cora Kaplan and Bill Schwarz
Publisher: The University of Michigan Press; University of Michigan Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780472071524; 9780472051526; 9780472027613
Subjects: African Americans in literature; Criticism and interpretation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Stranger at home: James Baldwin on what it means to be an American / Cheryl A. Wall; title: Baldwin and "the American confusion" / Colm Tc̳ib[MARC+96]n; title: "Over and over and over again": James Baldwin, Uncle Tom's cabin, and the afterlife of an American story / Briallen Hopper; title: "Now describing you": James Baldwin and Cold War liberalism / Vaughn Rasberry; title: Baldwin, prophecy, and politics / George Shulman; title: Rendezvous with life: reading early and late Baldwin / Robert Reid-Pharr; title: "History's ass pocket": the sources of Baldwinian diaspora / Kevin Birmingham; title: Separate and unequal in Paris: notes of a native son and the law / D. Quentin Miller; title: Exile and the private life: James Baldwin, George Lamming, and the First World Congress of Negro Writers and Artists / Kevin Gaines; title: From Istanbul to St. Paul-de-Vence: around James Baldwin's The welcome table / Magdalena Zaborowska; title: What is Africa to Baldwin? cultural illegitimacy and the step-fatherland / Douglas Field; title: James Baldwin and Chinua Achebe: transgressing official vocabularies / Eleanor W. Traylor.