James Baldwin Now
One of the most prolific and influential African American writers, James Baldwin was for many a harbinger of hope, a man who traversed the genres of art--writing novels, essays, and poetry.\ James Baldwin Now takes advantage of the latest interdisciplinary work to understand the complexity of Baldwin's vision and contributions without needing to name him as exclusively gay, expatriate, black, or activist. It was, in fact, Baldwin who said, "it is quite impossible to write a worthwhile novel...
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One of the most prolific and influential African American writers, James Baldwin was for many a harbinger of hope, a man who traversed the genres of art-writing novels, essays, and poetry.James Baldwin Now takes advantage of the latest interdisciplinary work to understand the complexity of Baldwin's vision and contributions without needing to name him as exclusively gay, expatriate, black, or activist. It was, in fact, Baldwin who said, "it is quite impossible to write a worthwhile novel about a Jew or a Gentile or a Homosexual, for people refuse . . . to function in so neat and one-dimensional a fashion." McBride has gathered a unique group of new scholars to interrogate Baldwin's life, his presence, and his political thought and work. James Baldwin Now finally addresses the man who spoke, and continues to speak, so eloquently to crucial issues of the twentieth century.BooknewsAmerican English scholars not only explore new ways of thinking about the prolific and influential African-American writer, but also open up new ways in which his work helps clarify many contemporary societal problems. In 14 essays they examine him in the context of race, sexuality, the transatlantic, intertexuality, and the literary. Many but not all center their discussion around a particular literary work. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: "How Much Time Do You Want for Your Progress?" New Approaches to James Baldwin1Pt. IBaldwin and Race1White Fantasies of Desire: Baldwin and the Racial Identities of Sexuality132Now More Than Ever: James Baldwin and the Critique of White Liberalism563Finding the Words: Baldwin, Race Consciousness, and Democratic Theory75Pt. IIBaldwin and Sexuality4Culture, Rhetoric, and Queer Identity: James Baldwin and the Identity Politics of Race and Sexuality1035Of Mimicry and (Little Man Little) Man: Toward a Queersighted Theory of Black Childhood1226Sexual Exiles: James Baldwin and Another Country161Pt. IIIBaldwin and the Transatlantic7Baldwin's Cosmopolitan Loneliness1878"Alas, Poor Richard!": Transatlantic Baldwin, the Politics of Forgetting, and the Project of Modernity2089The Parvenu Baldwin and the Other Side of Redemption: Modernity, Race, Sexuality, and the Cold War233Pt. IVBaldwin and Intertextuality10(Pro)Creating Imaginative Spaces and Other Queer Acts: Randall Kenan's A Visitation of Spirits and Its Revival of James Baldwin's Absent Black Gay Man in Giovanni's Room26511"I'm Not Entirely What I Look Like": Richard Wright, James Baldwin, and the Hegemony of Vision; or, Jimmy's FBEye Blues28912Life According to the Beat: James Baldwin, Bessie Smith, and the Perilous Sounds of Love307Pt. VBaldwin and the Literary13The Discovery of What It Means to Be a Witness: James Baldwin's Dialectics of Difference33114Selfhood and Strategy in Notes of a Native Son36015Select Bibliography of Works by and on James Baldwin393Contributors411Index415
\ BooknewsAmerican English scholars not only explore new ways of thinking about the prolific and influential African-American writer, but also open up new ways in which his work helps clarify many contemporary societal problems. In 14 essays they examine him in the context of race, sexuality, the transatlantic, intertexuality, and the literary. Many but not all center their discussion around a particular literary work. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \
