All those strangers : the art and lives of James Baldwin

All those strangers : the art and lives of James Baldwin / Douglas Field.

This study examines how James Baldwin's fiction and non-fiction shaped and responded to key political and cultural developments in the United States from the 1940s to the 1980s. It is animated by an examination of how external forces moulded Baldwin's personal, political, and psychological...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Field, Douglas, 1974- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [2015]
Subjects:
Baldwin, James, > 1924-1987 > Political and social views.
Baldwin, James, > 1924-1987
1900-1999
Politics and literature > United States > History > 20th century.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Political and social views
Politics and literature
United States
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Baldwin's life on the left: from New York
  • Intellectual to disturber of the peace
  • Radical Baldwin and the FBI: from the rights movement to black power
  • James Baldwin's religion: sex, love and blues
  • "I am a stranger everywhere": travel and transnational tensions in Baldwin's work
  • Afterword.

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