Notes of a Native Son

A new edition published on the twenty-fifth anniversary of Baldwin’s death, including a new introduction by an important contemporary writer Since its original publication in 1955, this first nonfiction collection of essays by James Baldwin remains an American classic. His impassioned essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and African Americans abroad are as powerful today as when they were first written. “A straight-from-the-shoulder writer, writing about the troubled problems of this troubled earth with an illuminating intensity.” --Langston Hughes, “Written with bitter clarity and uncommon grace.” --

Über den Autor / die Autorin

James Baldwin (1924–1987) was a novelist, an essayist, a playwright, a poet, and a social critic, and one of America’s foremost writers. His writing explores the palpable yet unspoken intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in Western societies, most notably in mid-twentieth-century America. He is the author of several novels and books of nonfiction, including Notes of a Native Son, Go Tell It on the Mountain, Giovanni’s Room, Another Country, Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone, If Beale Street Could Talk, Just Above My Head, The Fire Next Time, No Name in the Street, and The Evidence of Things Not Seen, and of the poetry collection Jimmy’s Blues.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: James Baldwin, Edward P. Jones
• Verlag: BEACON PRESS
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 04.02.2025
• EAN: 9780807018972
• ISBN: 978-0-8070-1897-2
• Seiten: 168
• Serie: Beacon Classics
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Englische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Soziologie > Soziologische Theorien