James Baldwin
By: edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.
Contributors: Bloom, Harold.
Edition: Updated ed.
Series: Bloom's modern critical views
Publisher: Chelsea House
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
Subjects: Baldwin, James, -- 1924-1987 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-212) and index.
Table of contents: value: The fire last time / Henry Louis Gates, Jr; value: The evolution of James Baldwin as essayist / Nick Aaron Ford; value: The ironic voice in Baldiwn's Go tell it on the mountain / Shirley S. Allen; value: The south in Go tell it on the mountain : Baldwin's personal confrontation / Horace Porter; value: The significance of "Notes of a native son" / Horace Porter; value: "Making love in the midst of mirrors": Giovanni's room and Another country / Carolyn Wedin Sylvander; value: The exorcising medium : Another country / Trudier Harris; value: A protest of his own / Irving Howe; value: Some tickets are better : the mixed achievement of James Baldwin / Julius Lester; value: Africa and The fire next time / David Leeming; value: "Sonny's blues," James Baldwin's image of black community / John M. Reilly; value: The jazz-blues motif in James Baldwin's "Sonny's blues" / Richard N. Albert; value: Fire as the symbol of a leadening existence in "Going to meet the man" / Arthenia Bates Millican; value: The fire next time this time / Mel Watkins; value: Excerpt from "The celebrity's return" / Lynn Orilla Scott; value: His cardboard lovers / Mario Puzo.