James Baldwin
Subtitle: his place in American literary history and his reception in Europe
By: Jakob Köllhofer (ed.).
Contributors: Köllhofer, Jakob J.; Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut (Heidelberg, Germany)
Publisher: P. Lang; Lang Publishing, Incorporated, Peter
Published: 1991
Place of publication: Frankfurt am Main; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 140
Subjects: Baldwin, James, 1924- -- Criticism and interpretation -- History -- Congresses.; Baldwin, James, 1924- -- Appreciation -- Europe -- Congresses.; National characteristics, American, in literature -- Congresses.; American fiction -- Appreciation -- Europe -- Congresses.; African Americans in literature -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Description: "Papers of a symposium set up by the German-American Institute in Heidelberg". --Publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Papers of a symposium set up by the German-American Institute in Heidelberg.
Table of contents: title: Some remarks on the reception of James Baldwin's work in the Federal Republic of Germany / Peter Freese; title: Historical aspects of the reception of James Baldwin in the German Democratic Republic / Friederike Hajek; title: James Baldwin in Paris / Michel Fabre; title: One Boricua's Baldwin / Roberto Márquez; title: Whose power? Baldwin and the "American legend of masculinity" / Hélène Cristol; title: With only the rain as a witness / Fletcher DuBois; title: In search of identity / James Oliver Horton; title: Notes on an Afroamerican son of the word and not sonofagun! / Ted Joans; title: Discursive strategies in James Baldwin's essays / Wolfgang Karrer; title: James A. Baldwin-obituaries for a black Ishmael / Maria Diedrich.