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James Baldwin : America and Beyond.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (267 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780472027613
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: James BaldwinDDC classification:
  • 818.5409
LOC classification:
  • PS3552
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: America and Beyond - Cora Kaplan and Bill Schwarz -- Part 1. What It Means to Be an American -- 1. Stranger at Home. James Baldwin on What It Means to Be an American - Cheryl A. Wall -- 2. Baldwin and "the American Confusion" - Colm Tóibín -- 3. "Over and Over and Over Again". James Baldwin, Uncle Tom's Cabin, and the Afterlife of an American Story- Briallen Hopper -- 4. "Now Describing You". James Baldwin and Cold War Liberalism - Vaughn Rasberry -- 5. Baldwin, Prophecy, and Politics -George Shulman -- 6. Rendezvous with Life. Reading Early and Late Baldwin - Robert Reid-Pharr -- Part 2. Stranger in the Village -- 7. "History's Ass Pocket". The Sources of Baldwinian Diaspora - Kevin Birmingham -- 8. Separate and Unequal in Paris. Notes of a Native Son and the Law - D. Quentin Miller -- 9. Exile and the Private Life. James Baldwin, George Lamming, and the First World Congress of Negro Writers and Artists - Kevin Gaines -- 10. From Istanbul to St. Paul-de-Vence. Around James Baldwin's The Welcome Table - Magdalena J. Zaborowska -- 11. What Is Africa to Baldwin? Cultural Illegitimacy and the Step-fatherland - Douglas Field -- 12. James Baldwin and Chinua Achebe. Transgressing Official Vocabularies - Eleanor W. Traylor -- Afterword - Hortense Spillers -- Contributors -- Index.
Summary: An interdisciplinary discussion of Baldwin by leading writers from several fields.
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Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: America and Beyond - Cora Kaplan and Bill Schwarz -- Part 1. What It Means to Be an American -- 1. Stranger at Home. James Baldwin on What It Means to Be an American - Cheryl A. Wall -- 2. Baldwin and "the American Confusion" - Colm Tóibín -- 3. "Over and Over and Over Again". James Baldwin, Uncle Tom's Cabin, and the Afterlife of an American Story- Briallen Hopper -- 4. "Now Describing You". James Baldwin and Cold War Liberalism - Vaughn Rasberry -- 5. Baldwin, Prophecy, and Politics -George Shulman -- 6. Rendezvous with Life. Reading Early and Late Baldwin - Robert Reid-Pharr -- Part 2. Stranger in the Village -- 7. "History's Ass Pocket". The Sources of Baldwinian Diaspora - Kevin Birmingham -- 8. Separate and Unequal in Paris. Notes of a Native Son and the Law - D. Quentin Miller -- 9. Exile and the Private Life. James Baldwin, George Lamming, and the First World Congress of Negro Writers and Artists - Kevin Gaines -- 10. From Istanbul to St. Paul-de-Vence. Around James Baldwin's The Welcome Table - Magdalena J. Zaborowska -- 11. What Is Africa to Baldwin? Cultural Illegitimacy and the Step-fatherland - Douglas Field -- 12. James Baldwin and Chinua Achebe. Transgressing Official Vocabularies - Eleanor W. Traylor -- Afterword - Hortense Spillers -- Contributors -- Index.

An interdisciplinary discussion of Baldwin by leading writers from several fields.

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