James Baldwin
Subtitle: a collection of critical essays.
Series: Twentieth century views
Publisher: Prentice-Hall
Published: 1974
Place of publication: Englewood Cliffs, N.J
Language: eng
Format: h
Number of pages: 169
Subjects: Baldwin, James, 1924- -- Criticism and interpretation; African Americans in literature; Racism in literature
Notes: Bibliography: p. 167-169.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Kenneth Kinnamon -- From Harlem to Paris / Langston Hughes -- James Baldwin and the "Man" / F.W. Dupee -- Baldwin and the problem of being / Robert A. Bone -- The lesson of the master: Henry James and James Baldwin / Charles Newman -- Notes on a native son / Eldridge Cleaver -- The "stink" of reality: mothers and whores in James Baldwin's fiction / Charlotte Alexander -- James Baldwin: at ease in Apocalypse / Irving Howe -- A fiery baptism / Calvin C. Hernton -- Fathers and sons in James Baldwin's Go tell it on the mountain / Michel Fabre -- "Sonny's blues": James Baldwin's image of black community / John M. Reilly -- The black musician: the black hero as light bearer / Sherley Anne Williams -- James Baldwin on the Sixties: acts and revelations / Benjamin DeMott.