The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings
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The Cross of Redemption is a revelation by an American literary master: a gathering of essays, articles, polemics, reviews, and interviews that have never before appeared in book form. James Baldwin was one of the most brilliant and provocative literary figures of the past century, renowned for his fierce engagement with issues haunting our common history. In The Cross of Redemption we have Baldwin discoursing on, among other subjects, the possibility of an African-American president and what it might mean; the hypocrisy of American religious fundamentalism; the black church in America; the trials and tribulations of black nationalism; anti-Semitism; the blues and boxing; Russian literary masters; and the role of the writer in our society. Prophetic and bracing, The Cross of Redemption is a welcome and important addition to the works of a cosmopolitan and canonical American writer who still has much to teach us about race, democracy, and personal and national identity. As Michael Ondaatje has remarked, “If van Gogh was our nineteenth-century artist-saint, Baldwin [was] our twentieth-century one.”The Barnes & Noble ReviewThe Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings brings forward fifty-five essays that few people outside of Baldwin scholars have read; it is, therefore, something we can be eagerly thankful for, and great credit is due the editor Randall Kenan (a successful novelist in his own right). Described as a "companion volume" to the Library of America edition of Baldwin's Collected Essays, Kenan's selections are in fact more than just complementary. What we have here are not b-sides to the top 40 hits of Baldwin's career, but rather the author's rehearsals of his more famous essays. And rehearsals can be just as entertaining and informing -- if not moreso -- than full dress performances.
INTRODUCTION Looking for James Baldwin ESSAYS AND SPEECHES Mass Culture and the Creative Artist: Some Personal Notes A Word from Writer Directly to Reader From Nationalism, Colonialism, and the United States: One Minute to Twelve—A Forum Theater: The Negro In and Out Is A Raisin in the Sun a Lemon in the Dark? As Much Truth as One Can Bear Geraldine Page: Bird of Light From What’s the Reason Why?: A Symposium by Best-Selling Authors: James Baldwin on Another Country The Artist’s Struggle for Integrity We Can Change the Country Why I Stopped Hating Shakespeare The Uses of the Blues What Price Freedom? The White Problem Black Power The Price May Be Too High The Nigger We Invent Speech from the Soledad Rally A Challenge to Bicentennial Candidates The News from All the Northern Cities Is, to Understate It, Grim; the State of the Union Is Catastrophic Lorraine Hansberry at the Summit On Language, Race, and the Black Writer Of the Sorrow Songs: The Cross of Redemption Black English: A Dishonest Argument This Far and No Further On Being White . . . and Other Lies Blacks and Jews To Crush a Serpent PROFILES The Fight: Patterson vs. Liston Sidney Poitier LETTERS Letters from a Journey The International War Crimes Tribunal Anti-Semitism and Black Power An Open Letter to My Sister Angela Y. Davis A Letter to Prisoners The Fire This Time: Letter to the Bishop FOREWORDS AND AFTERWORDS A Quarter-Century of Un-Americana Memoirs of a Bastard Angel: A Fifty-Year Literary and Erotic Odyssey by Harold Norse The Negro in New York: An Informal Social History, 1626–1940, edited by Roi Ottley and William J. Weatherby Daddy Was a Number Runner by Louise Meriwether A Lonely Rage by Bobby Seale BOOK REVIEWS Best Short Stories by Maxim Gorky Mother by Maxim Gorky The Amboy Dukes by Irving Shulman The Sure Hand of God by Erskine Caldwell The Sling and the Arrow by Stuart Engstrand Novels and Stories by Robert Louis Stevenson, edited by V. S. Pritchett; and Robert Louis Stevenson by David Daiches Flood Crest by Hodding Carter The Moth by James M. Cain The Portable Russian Reader, edited by Bernard Guilbert Guerney The Person and the Common Good by Jacques Maritain The Negro Newspaper by Vishnu V. Oak; Jim Crow America by Earl Conrad; The High Cost of Prejudice by Bucklin Moon; The Protestant Church and the Negro by Frank S. Loescher; Color and Conscience by Buell G. Gallagher; From Slavery to Freedom by John Hope Franklin; and The Negro in America by Arnold Rose The Cool World by Warren Miller Essays by Seymour Krim The Arrangement by Elia Kazan A Man’s Life: An Autobiography by Roger Wilkins FICTION The Death of a Prophet SOURCES
