James Baldwin
By: by Louis H. Pratt.
Series: Twayne's United States authors series ; TUSAS 290
Publisher: Twayne Publishers
Published: 1978
Place of publication: Boston, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 157
Subjects: Baldwin, James, 1924- -- Criticism and interpretation; African Americans in literature; Racism in literature
Description: Treats the style, theme, and technique in the novels, and in the plays, attention is given to the common themes of illusion versus reality and the search for identity.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 147-154.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: "Common experience, uncommonly probed" -- The fear and the fury -- Love denied, love fulfilled -- The darkness within -- The confrontation of experience -- The scheme of things: new worlds and beyond.