A political companion to James Baldwin /
"Acclaimed author and social critic James Baldwin (1924-1987) maintained that all American literature is intrinsically bound to the nation's social history and that all American writers are products of its political system. In seminal works such as Go Tell It on the Mountain, Notes of a Na...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington :
University Press of Kentucky,
[2017]
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Colección: | Political companions to great American authors.
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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.