Critical essays on James Baldwin
By: [edited by] Fred L. Standley, Nancy V. Burt.
Contributors: Standley, Fred L.; Burt, Nancy V.
Series: Critical essays on American literature
Publisher: G.K. Hall
Published: 1988
Place of publication: Boston, Mass
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 312
Subjects: Baldwin, James, 1924- -- Criticism and interpretation.; African Americans in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographies and index.
Table of contents: title: James Baldwin : looking towards the eighties / Kalamu ya Salaam -- James Baldwin : the artist as incorrigible disturber of the peace / Fred L. Standley -- You can't go home again : James Baldwin and the South / Daryl C. Dance -- The embattled craftsman : an essay on James Baldwin / Houston A. Baker, Jr. -- The economic evolution of James Baldwin / Craig Werner -- The divided mind of James Baldwin / C.W.E. Bigsby -- James Baldwin's blues / Marlene Mosher -- James Baldwin's vision of otherness and community / Emmanuel S. Nelson -- Fathers, gods, and religion : perceptions of Christianity and ethnic faith in James Baldwin / Sondra A. O'Neale -- Temple of the Fire Baptized / Richard K. Barksdale -- A homosexual dilemma / Leslie A. Fiedler -- Outcasts in a caldron of hate / Granville Hicks -- Blues for Mister Baldwin / Joseph Featherstone -- His cardboard lovers / Mario Puzo -- A quite moving and very traditional celebration of love / Joyce Carol Oates -- Blues for Mr. Baldwin / Darryl Pinckney -- Religious symbolism and psychic reality in Baldwin's Go tell it on the mountain / Shirley S. Allen -- Go tell it on the mountain : religion as the indirect method of indictment / Fred L. Standley -- Baldwin's Going to meet the man : racial brutality and sexual gratification / Roger Whitlow -- Words and music : narrative ambiguity in "Sonny's blues" / Keith E. Byerman -- The eye as weapon in If Beale Street could talk / Trudier Harris -- I hear music in the air : James Baldwin's Just above my head / Eleanor Traylor -- From Harlem to Paris / Langston Hughes -- A love affair with the United States / Julian Mayfield -- James Baldwin : voice of a revolution / Stephen Spender -- The fire next time this time / Mel Watkins -- The devil finds work / Orde Coombs -- The writer and the preacher / Jonathan Yardley -- Some tickets are better : the mixed achievement of James Baldwin / Julius Lester -- The problem of identity in selected early essays of James Baldwin / Jocelyn Whitehead Jackson -- The political significance of James Baldwin's early criticism / Louis H. Pratt -- No name in the street : James Baldwin's image of the American sixties / Joshinobu Hakutani -- The review that was too true to be published / Tom F. Driver -- The amen corner / Harold Clurman -- James Baldwin : on the tube at last / Martha Bayles -- James Baldwin as dramatist / Fred L. Standley.