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James Baldwin : dossier
Year: 2018 Publisher: Paris: Le matricule des anges,

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Begin again : James Baldwin's America and its urgent lessons for today
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ISBN: 1784744441 1784744336 9781784744441 9781784744335 Year: 2021 Publisher: London: Chatto and Windus,

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The struggles of Black Lives Matter and the attempt to achieve a new America have been challenged by the presidency of Donald Trump, a president whose time in the White House represents the latest failure of America to face the lies it tells itself about race. For James Baldwin, a similar attempt to force a confrontation with the truth of America's racism came in the wake of the Civil Rights Movement, and was answered with the murders of Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. In the years from the publication of The Fire Next Time in 1963 to that of No Name in the Street in 1972, Baldwin - the great creative artist, often referred to as 'the poet of the revolution' - became a more overtly political writer, a change that came at great professional and personal cost. But from that journey, Baldwin emerged with a sense of renewed purpose about the necessity of pushing forward in the face of disillusionment and despair. Today, America is at a crossroads. Drawing insight and inspiration from Baldwin's writings, Glaude suggests we can find hope and guidance through our own era of shattered promises and white retrenchment. Seamlessly combining biography with history, memoir and trenchant analysis of our moment, Begin Again bears witness to the difficult truth of race in America. It is at once a searing exploration that lays bare the tangled web of race, trauma and memory, and a powerful interrogation of what we all must ask of ourselves in order to call forth a more just future.

James Baldwin
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ISBN: 0877547084 9780877547082 Year: 1986 Publisher: New York Chelsea House Publishers


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Desperate faith : a study of Bellow, Salinger, Mailer, Baldwin and Updike
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Year: 1967 Publisher: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press,

Exiled in Paris: Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Samuel Beckett and others on the Left Bank
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ISBN: 0689121725 9780689121722 Year: 1995 Publisher: Berkeley (Calif.): University of California press,


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Die amerikanische Kurzgeschichte nach 1945 : Salinger, Malamud, Baldwin, Purdy, Barth.
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ISBN: 3761018169 9783761018163 Year: 1974 Volume: 8 Publisher: Frankfurt am Main Athenäum

James Baldwin : a collection of critical essays
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ISBN: 0130555584 0130555665 9780130555663 9780130555588 Year: 1974 Publisher: Englewood Cliffs (N.J.) : Prentice-Hall,

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James Baldwin has been on of the foremost interpreters of the black American experience. The controversial and outspoken nature of his works has stirred up a storm of critical reaction. Kenneth Kinnamon has selected a broad range of interpretations of Baldwin's life and work. Race, sex, violence, love, and religion, the most recurrent themes in Baldwin's works, receive the scrutiny of diverse commentators. Literary and social critics, black and white, explore in detail the impact, worth, and place of Baldwin as an imaginative writer and as an analyst of American racial dilemmas. -- From publisher's description.

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