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Record Nr.

UNINA9910795234603321

Titolo

A political companion to James Baldwin / / edited by Susan J. McWilliams

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lexington, Kentucky : , : University Press of Kentucky, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

0-8131-6993-3

0-8131-7476-7

0-8131-6992-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (pages cm.)

Collana

Political Companions to Great American Authors

Disciplina

818/.5409

Soggetti

Politics and literature - United States - History - 20th century

Politics in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- Introduction -- 1 "A Most Disagreeable Mirror" -- 2 The Race of a More Perfect Union -- 3 James Baldwin and the Politics of Disconnection -- 4 What William F. Buckley Jr. Did Not Understand about James Baldwin -- 5 Baldwin, Prophecy, and Politics -- 6 The Negative Political Theology of James Baldwin -- 7 Go Tell It on the Mountain -- 8 Socrates in a Different Key -- 9 Crossing Identitarian Lines -- 10 "Where the People Can Sing, the Poet Can Live" -- 11 Baldwin's Individualism and Critique of Property -- 12 James Baldwin on Violence and Disavowal -- 13 James Baldwin and Black Lives Matter -- 14 "Tell Him I'm Gone" -- Acknowledgments -- Selected Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.