James Baldwin Review - Volume 1

Informationen zum Autor Douglas Field is Senior Lecturer in Twentieth Century American Literature at the University of Manchester Justin A. Joyce is Research Associate at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia Dwight A. McBride is Provost and Executive Vice President of Academic Affairs at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia Klappentext The James Baldwin Review (JBR) is an annual journal that brings together a wide array of peer-reviewed critical and creative work on the life, writings, and legacy of James Baldwin. This edition brings together all of the articles published in this year's volume. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Baltimore is Still Burning: the Rising Relevance of James Baldwin - Justin A. Joyce, Douglas Field, Dwight A. McBride ESSAYS "But Amen is the Price:" James Baldwin and Ray Charles in "The Hallelujah Chorus" - Ed PavlicAfter Decolonization, After Civil Rights: Chinua Achebe and James Baldwin - Bill SchwarzProphecy and Doubt in Just Above My Head - Christopher Z. Hobson"Here Be Dragons:" The Tyranny of the Cityscape in James Baldwin's Intimate Cartographies - Emma Cleary DISPATCHES "I'm Trying to be as Honest as I Can:" An Interview with James Baldwin (1969) - Rich Blint, Nazar BüyümJames Baldwin: Voyages in Search of Love - David LeemingGoing to Meet James Baldwin in Provence - D. Quentin Miller BIBLIOGRAPHIC ESSAY Reading and Theorizing James Baldwin: A Bibliographic Essay - Conseula Francis CONFERENCE REVIEWS Exploring Baldwin in Montpellier: The 2014 "James Baldwin: Transatlantic Commuter" Conference - John KeeneReview of New York City's "The Year of Baldwin" - Michele Elam FORUM: CRITICAL CONVERSATIONS IN PROGRESS James Baldwin and the Question of Privacy: A Roundtable Conversation at the 2014 American Studies Convention - Brian Norman, Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman, John E. Drabinski, Julius Fleming, Nigel Hatton, Dagmawi Woubshet, Magdalena Zaborowska MULTI-MEDIA FEATURE ON "SONNY'S BLUES" Evoking Baldwin's Blues: The Experience of Dislocated Listening - Rashida K. BraggsSonny in the Dark: Jazzing the Blues Spirit and the Gospel Truth in James Baldwin's "Sonny's Blues" - Steven C. Tracy...

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• Authors: Douglas Field, Douglas Joyce Field, Justin Joyce, Dwight Mcbride
• Assisted by: Douglas Field (Editor), Field Douglas (Editor), Justin Joyce (Editor), Joyce Justin (Editor), Dwight Mcbride (Editor), McBride Dwight (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.10.2015
• EAN: 9781526121974
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-2197-4
• No. of pages: 228
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, Literature & literary studies, c 1954 to c 1968 (era of the American Civil Rights Movement), Civil rights & citizenship, Human rights, civil rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American & Black, Biography, Literature and Literary studies