UID:
edocfu_9959695945902883
Format:
1 online resource (xxii, 246 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-316-23442-8
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1-316-23631-5
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1-107-33772-0
Series Statement:
Cambridge companions to literature
Content:
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 personally, and controversially, eschewed titles and classifications of all kinds. Individual 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 assume new urgency.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015).
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Introduction: Baldwin's art /
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"Closer to something unnameable" : James Baldwin's art of the novel /
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James Baldwin's poetics /
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Go tell it on the mountain : the sermonic in the works of James Baldwin /
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Paying dues and playing the blues : James Baldwin's existential jazz motif /
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Baldwin's theatre /
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Baldwin's humor /
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James Baldwin and Yoran Cazac's "Child's story for adults" /
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Baldwin's collaborations /
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Baldwin and black leadership /
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"As though a metaphor were tangible" : James Baldwin and identity /
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Baldwin and the occasion of love /
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James Baldwin's FBI files as political biography /
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Domesticating James Baldwin's global imagination /
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Coda: the heart of Baldwin /
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-107-61818-5
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-107-04303-4
Language:
English
