Stealing the fire
Subtitle: the art and protest of James Baldwin
By: Horace A. Porter.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Middletown, Conn
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 220
Subjects: Baldwin, James, 1924- -- Criticism and interpretation; African Americans in literature; Racism in literature
Notes: Bibliography: p. 191-212.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: An Encounter at New Haven -- From Harlem to Paris: James Baldwin's Complex Fate -- "A Rage in the Blood": The Significance of "Notes of a Native Son" -- "This Web of Lust and Fury": Harriet Beecher Stowe, James Badlwin's Nineteenth Century White Mother -- "My Ally, My Witness, and Alas! My Father": James Baldwin's Response to Richard Wright -- The "Bitter Nourishment" of Art: The Three Faces on James Baldwin's Mountain -- "Out of Disorder, The Order Which is Art": James Baldwin and the "Mighty" Henry James -- The Divided Soul of James Baldwin -- Notes on an American Scence -- James Baldwin: A Selected Biography.