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A Political Companion to James Baldwin /
In this text, a group of prominent scholars assesses James Baldwin's relevance to present-day political challenges. Together, they address Baldwin as a democratic theorist, activist, and citizen, examining his writings on the civil rights movement, religion, homosexuality, and women's righ...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington :
University Press of Kentucky,
[2017]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / Susan J. McWilliams
- Part I. Collective consciousness and community. "A most disagreeable mirror" : race consciousness as double consciousness / Lawrie Balfour
- The race of a more perfect union : James Baldwin, segregated memory, and the presidential race / P.J. Brendese
- James Baldwin and the politics of disconnection / Susan J. McWilliams
- What William F. Buckley Jr. did not understand about James Baldwin : on Baldwin's politics of freedom / Nicholas Buccola
- Part II. Prophecy, religion, and truth. Baldwin, prophecy, and politics / George Shulman
- The negative political theology of James Baldwin / Vincent Lloyd
- Go tell it on the mountain : James Baldwin and the politics of faith / Wilson Carey McWilliams
- Part III. The individual life, the interior life, the unexamined life. Socrates in a different key : James Baldwin and race in America / Joel Alden Schlosser
- Crossing identitarian lines : women's liberation and James Baldwin's early essays / Brian Norman
- "Where the people can sing, the poet can live" : James Baldwin, pragmatism, and cosmopolitan humanism / Ulf Schulenberg
- Baldwin's individualism and critique of property / Jack Turner
- Part IV. Violence and vision. James Baldwin on violence and disavowal / Lisa Beard
- James Baldwin and Black Lives Matter / Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
- "Tell him I'm gone" : on the margins in High-Tech City / Rachel Brahinsky.