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Uniform Title
Essays. Selections.
Title
Collected essays / James Baldwin.
ISBN
1883011523
9781883011529
Published
New York : Library of America, 1998.
Physical Description
x, 869 pages ; 21 cm.
Summary
Novelist, essayist, and public intellectual, James Baldwin was one of the most brilliant and provocative literary figures of the postwar era, and one of the greatest African-American writers of this century. A self-described "transatlantic commuter" who spent much of his life in France, Baldwin joined a cosmopolitan sophistication to a fierce engagement with social issues. Here are the complete texts of his early landmark collections, Notes of a Native Son (1955) and Nobody Knows My Name (1961), which established him as an essential intellectual voice of his time, fusing in unique fashion the personal, the literary, and the political. The classic The Fire Next Time (1963), perhaps the most influential of his writings, is his most penetrating analysis of America's racial divide, and an impassioned call to "end the racial nightmare ... and change the history of the world." The later volumes No Name in the Street (1972) and The Devil Finds Work (1976) chart his continuing response to the social and political turbulence of his era. A further thirty-six essaysnine of them previously uncollected - include some of Baldwin's earliest published writings, as well as revealing later insights into the language of Shakespeare, the poetry of Langston Hughes, and the music of Earl Hines.
Variant and related titles
Notes of a native son.
Nobody knows my name.
Fire next time.
No name in the street.
Devil finds work.
Other formats
Online version: Baldwin, James, 1924-1987. Essays. Selections. Collected essays. New York : Library of America, 1998
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 08, 2017
Series
The library of America ; 98.
Contents
NOTES OF A NATIVE SON : Autobiographical Notes
Everybody's Protest Novel
Many Thousands Gone
Carmen Jones: The Dark Is Light Enough
The Harlem Ghetto
Journey to Atlanta
Notes of a Native Son
Encounter on the Seine: Black Meets Brown
A Question of Identity
Equal in Paris
Stranger in the Village
NOBODY KNOWS MY NAME : The Discovery of What It Means To Be an American
Princes and Powers
Fifth Avenue, Uptown: A Letter from Harlem
East River, Downtown: Postscript to a Letter from Harlem
A Fly in Buttermilk
Nobody Knows My Name: A Letter from the South
Faulkner and Desegregation
In Search of a Majority
Notes for a Hypothetical Novel
The Male Prison
The Northern Protestant
Alas, Poor Richard
The Black Boy Looks at the White Boy
THE FIRE NEXT TIME : My Dungeon Shook: Letter to My Nephew
Down at the Cross
NO NAME IN THE STREET
THE DEVIL FINDS WORK
OTHER ESSAYS : Smaller Than Life
History as Nightmare
The Image of the Negro
Lockridge: 'The American Myth'
Preservation of Innocence
The Negro at Home and Abroad
The Crusade of Indignation
Sermons and Blues
On Catfish Row
They Can't Turn Back
The Dangerous Road Before Martin Luther King
The New Lost Generation
The Creative Process
Color
A Talk to Teachers
"This Nettle, Danger ..."
Nothing Personal
Words of a Native Son
The American Dream and the American Negro
On the Painter Beauford Delaney
The White Man's Guilt
A Report from Occupied Territory
Negroes Are Anti-Semitic Because They're Anti-White
White Racism or World Community?
Sweet Lorraine
How One Black Man Came To Be an American
An Open Letter to Mr. Carter
Last of the Great Masters
Every Good-bye Ain't Gone
If Black English Isn't a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is?
Open Letter to the Born Again
Dark Days
Notes on the House of Bondage
Introduction to Notes of a Native Son, 1984
Freaks and the American Ideal of Manhood
The Price of the Ticket.
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