James Baldwin
By: Carolyn Wedin Sylvander.
Series: Modern literature series
Publisher: Ungar
Published: 1980
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 181
Subjects: Baldwin, James, 1924- -- Criticism and interpretation; African Americans in literature; Racism in literature
Description: Studying all of Baldwin's writings--from his early essaysto Just Above My Head, his latest novel--Sylvander shows how Balwin has drawn on his early struggles to produce a passionate and humane body of work.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 163-171.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Noteworthy Native sons -- Nonfiction: "One cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own -- "Im ready," "I'm coming," "I'm on my way": Go tell it on the mountain -- "Making love in the midst of morrors": Giovanni's room and another country -- "You can say I'm the girl, or the boy, or their unborn child": Tell me how long the train's been gone and if Beale Street could talk -- The Coommunion which is the theater": The Amen Corner, Blues for Mister Charlie, and One Day, When I was lost -- Charting racism in America, 1945-1965: Going to meet the man -- "I hear music in the air": Just above my head -- Critical sources; afterword.