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The Cambridge companion to James Baldwin / edited by Michele Elam, Stanford University.

Elam, Michele, author.
2015
PS3552.A45 Z6526 2015 (Mapit)
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Title
The Cambridge companion to James Baldwin / edited by Michele Elam, Stanford University.
Author
Elam, Michele, author.
ISBN
9781107043039 (hardcover)
1107043034 (hardcover)
9781107618183 (paperback)
1107618185 (paperback)
Published
New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Language
English
Description
xxii, 246 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Call Number
PS3552.A45 Z6526 2015
Dewey Decimal Classification
818/.5409
Summary
This Companion offers fresh insight into the art and politics of James Baldwin, one of the most important writers and provocative cultural critics of the twentieth century. Black, gay, and gifted, he was hailed as a "spokesman for the race," although he, at times controversially, eschewed titles and classifications of all kinds. Thirteen original essays examine his classic novels and nonfiction as well as his work across lesser-examined domains: poetry, music, theatre, sermon, photo-text, children's literature, public media, comedy, and artistic collaboration. In doing so, The Cambridge Companion to James Baldwin captures the power and influence of his work during the civil rights era as well as his relevance in the "post-race" transnational twenty-first century, when his prescient questioning of the boundaries of race, sex, love, leadership, and country assumes new urgency. -- from back cover.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series
Cambridge companions to literature.
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Introduction: Baldwin's art / Michele Elam
"Closer to something unnameable" : James Baldwin's art of the novel / Jacqueline Goldsby
James Baldwin's poetics / Meta Duewa Jones
Go tell it on the mountain : the sermonic in the works of James Baldwin / Soyica Diggs Colbert
Paying dues and playing the blues : James Baldwin's existential jazz motif / Radiclani Clytus
Baldwin's theatre / E. Patrick Johnson
Baldwin's humor / Danielle Heard
James Baldwin and Yoran Cazac's "Child's story for adults" / Nicholas Boggs
Baldwin's collaborations / Brian Norman
Baldwin and black leadership / Erica R. Edwards
"As though a metaphor were tangible" : James Baldwin and identity / Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman
Baldwin and the occasion of love / Christopher Freeburg
James Baldwin's FBI files as political biography / Douglas Field
Domesticating James Baldwin's global imagination / Magdalena J. Zaborowska
Coda: the heart of Baldwin / Quentin Miller.

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