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A clear overview and analysis of James Baldwin's life and work.

Baldwin, James, --- Baldwin, James --- Baldwin, James Arthur --- Baldwin, Jimmy --- Bolduïn, Dz︠h︡eĭms --- Bōrudouin, J. --- Bōrudouin, Jēmuzu --- Болдуин, Джеймс --- ボールドウィン, J., --- ボールドウィン, ジェームズ, --- Criticism and interpretation.

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James Baldwin in Context provides a wide-ranging collection of approaches to the work of an essential black American author who is just as relevant now as he was during his turbulent heyday in the mid-twentieth century. The perspectives range from those who knew Baldwin personally, to scholars who have dedicated decades to studying him, to a new generation of scholars for whom Baldwin is nearly a historical figure. This collection complements the ever-growing body of scholarship on Baldwin by combining traditional inroads into his work, such as music and expatriation, with new approaches, such as intersectionality and the Black Lives Matter movement.

Baldwin, James, --- Baldwin, James --- Baldwin, James Arthur --- Baldwin, Jimmy --- Bolduïn, Dz︠h︡eĭms --- Bōrudouin, J. --- Bōrudouin, Jēmuzu --- Болдуин, Джеймс --- ボールドウィン, J., --- ボールドウィン, ジェームズ, --- Criticism and interpretation.

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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.

African Americans in literature. --- Noirs américains --- Dans la littérature. --- Baldwin, James, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Critique et interprétation --- Baldwin, James --- Critique et interprétation. --- African Americans in literature --- Afro-Americans in literature --- Negroes in literature --- Baldwin, Jimmy, --- Bolduïn, Dz︠h︡eĭms, --- Bōrudouin, J., --- Bōrudouin, Jēmuzu, --- Болдуин, Джеймс, --- ボールドウィン, J., --- ボールドウィン, ジェームズ, --- Baldwin, James Arthur --- Baldwin, Jimmy --- Bolduïn, Dz︠h︡eĭms --- Bōrudouin, J. --- Bōrudouin, Jēmuzu --- Болдуин, Джеймс --- Noirs américains --- Dans la littérature. --- Critique et interprétation.

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Adored by many, appalling to some, baffling still to others, few authors defy any single critical narrative to the confounding extent that James Baldwin manages. Was he a religious or secular writer? Was he a spokesman for the civil rights movement or a champion of the individual? His critics, as disparate as his readership, endlessly wrestle with paradoxes, not just in his work but also in his life of a man who described himself as "all those strangers called Jimmy Baldwin" and who declared that "all theories are suspect." Viewing Baldwin through a cultural-historical lens alongside a more traditional literary critical approach, All Those Strangers examines how his fiction and nonfiction shaped and responded to key political and cultural developments in the United States from the 1940s to the 1980s. Showing how external forces molded Baldwin's personal, political, and psychological development. Douglas Field breaks through the established critical difficulties caused by Baldwin's geographical, ideological, and artistic multiplicity by analyzing his life and work against the radically transformative politics of his time. The book explores under-researched areas in Baldwin's life and work, including his relationship to the Left, his FBI files, and the significance of Africa in his writing, while also contributing to wider discussions about postwar US culture. Field deftly navigates key twentieth-century themes - the Cold War, African American literary history, conflicts between spirituality and organized religion, and transnationalism - to bring a number of isolated subjects into dialogue with each other. By exploring the paradoxes in Baldwin's development as a writer, rather than trying to fix his life and work into a single framework, All Those Strangers contradicts the accepted critical paradigm that Baldwin's life and work are too ambiguous to make sense of. By studying him as an individual and an artist in flux, Field reveals the manifold ways in which Baldwin's work develops and coheres. -- from dust jacket.

Baldwin, James --- Political and social views --- Politics and literature --- United States --- History --- 20th century --- Baldwin, James, --- Baldwin, James Arthur --- Baldwin, Jimmy --- Bolduïn, Dz︠h︡eĭms --- Bōrudouin, J. --- Bōrudouin, Jēmuzu --- Болдуин, Джеймс --- ボールドウィン, J., --- ボールドウィン, ジェームズ, --- Political and social views. --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- American Literature

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African Americans in literature --- Afro-Americans in literature --- Negroes in literature --- Baldwin, James, --- Baldwin, James --- Baldwin, James Arthur --- Baldwin, Jimmy --- Bolduïn, Dz︠h︡eĭms --- Bōrudouin, J. --- Bōrudouin, Jēmuzu --- Болдуин, Джеймс --- ボールドウィン, J., --- ボールドウィン, ジェームズ, --- Criticism and interpretation.