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020 |z 0814270417 
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035 |a (OCoLC)868026477 
040 |a MdBmJHUP  |c MdBmJHUP 
100 1 |a Miller, D. Quentin  |q (Daniel Quentin),  |d 1967-  |e author. 
245 1 2 |a A Criminal Power :   |b James Baldwin and the Law /   |c D. Quentin Miller. 
264 1 |a Columbus :  |b The Ohio State University Press,  |c [2012] 
264 3 |a Baltimore, Md. :  |b Project MUSE,   |c 2014 
264 4 |c ©[2012] 
300 |a 1 online resource (224 pages). 
336 |a text  |b txt  |2 rdacontent 
337 |a computer  |b c  |2 rdamedia 
338 |a online resource  |b cr  |2 rdacarrier 
505 0 |a No room of one's own -- Other countries, hidden laws -- A criminal power -- Return to exile -- The fire reignited. 
506 0 |a Open Access  |f Unrestricted online access  |2 star 
520 |a James Baldwin, one of the major African American writers of the twentieth century, has been the subject of a substantial body of literary criticism. As a prolific and experimental author with a marginalized perspective--a black man during segregation and the Civil Rights era, a gay man at a time when homophobia was commonly accepted--Baldwin has fascinated readers for over half a century. Yet Baldwin's critics have tended to separate his weighty, complex body of work and to examine it piecemeal. A Criminal Power: James Baldwin and the Law is the first thematic study to analyze the complete scope of his work. It accomplishes this through an expansive definition and thorough analysis of the social force that oppressed Baldwin throughout his life: namely, the law. Baldwin, who died in 1987, attempted suicide in 1949 at the age of 25 after spending eight days in a French prison following an absurd arrest for "receiving stolen goods"--A sheet that his acquaintance had taken from a hotel. This seemingly trivial incident made Baldwin painfully aware of what he would later call the law's "criminal power." Previously, most book-length studies addressing Baldwin's entire career have been biographies and artistic "portraits." D. Quentin Miller corrects this oversight in a comprehensive volume that speaks to Baldwin's unified body of work. Miller asserts that the Baldwin corpus is a testament to how the abuse of power within the American legal, judicial, and penal systems manifested itself in the twentieth century"--Adapted from publisher's description 
588 |a Description based on print version record. 
600 1 7 |a Baldwin, James,  |d 1924-1987.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst00038941 
600 1 1 |a Baldwin, James,  |d 1924-1987  |x Criticism and interpretation. 
600 1 0 |a Baldwin, James,  |d 1924-1987  |x Criticism and interpretation. 
650 7 |a Race discrimination in literature.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst01086490 
650 7 |a Law in literature.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst00994014 
650 7 |a Law enforcement in literature.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst01903753 
650 7 |a Homophobia in literature.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst00959743 
650 7 |a Discrimination in law enforcement.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst00895102 
650 7 |a Discrimination in criminal justice administration.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst00895034 
650 6 |a Discrimination dans l'administration de la justice penale  |z États-Unis. 
650 6 |a Discrimination dans l'application des lois  |z États-Unis. 
650 6 |a Droit dans la litterature. 
650 6 |a Lois  |x Application, dans la litterature. 
650 6 |a Discrimination raciale dans la litterature. 
650 0 |a Discrimination in criminal justice administration  |z United States. 
650 0 |a Discrimination in law enforcement  |z United States. 
650 0 |a Law in literature. 
650 0 |a Law enforcement in literature. 
650 0 |a Homophobia in literature. 
650 0 |a Race discrimination in literature. 
651 7 |a United States.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 
655 7 |a Critiques litteraires.  |2 rvmgf 
655 7 |a Literary criticism.  |2 lcgft 
655 7 |a Literary criticism.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst01986215 
655 7 |a Criticism, interpretation, etc.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 
655 7 |a Electronic books.   |2 local 
710 2 |a Project Muse.  |e distributor 
830 0 |a Book collections on Project MUSE. 
856 4 0 |z Texto completo  |u https://projectmuse.uam.elogim.com/book/24249/ 
945 |a Project MUSE - 2012 Literature Supplement II 
945 |a Project MUSE - 2012 Complete Supplement II