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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823009303321

Titolo

James Baldwin : America and beyond / / edited by Cora Kaplan and Bill Schwarz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor, : University of Michigan Press, 2011

ISBN

1-283-33432-1

9786613334329

0-472-02761-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 259 pages)

Altri autori (Persone)

KaplanCora

SchwarzBill <1951->

Disciplina

818.5409

Soggetti

African Americans in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.



Sommario/riassunto

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