Editor(s): Field, Douglas. Series: Historical Guides to American Authors. Num Pages: 272 pages, 27 black and white halftones. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSK; RGL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 143 x 216 x 22. Weight in Grams: 374. . 2009. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Title: Historical Guide to James Baldwin
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Publication Date: 2009
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0195366549
ISBN 13: 9780195366549
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New

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With contributions from major scholars of African American literature, history, and cultural studies, A Historical Guide to James Baldwin focuses on the four tumultous decades that defined the great author's life and art. Providing a comprehensive examination of Baldwin's varied body of work that includes short stories, novels, and polemical essays, this collection reflects the major events that left an indelible imprint on the iconic writer: civil rights, black nationalism and the struggle for gay rights in the pre- and post-Stonewall eras. The essays also highlight Baldwin's under-studied role as a trans-Atlantic writer, his lifelong struggle with faith, and his use of music, especially the blues, as a key to unlock the mysteries of his identity as an exile, an artist, and a black American in a racially hostile era.

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Douglas Field is Lecturer in Contemporary Literature, Staffordshire University, UK and he is the book review editor for Callaloo.

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