| Description |
xx, 690 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents |
Introduction : The price of the ticket -- The Harlem ghetto -- Lockridge : "The American myth" -- Journey to Atlanta -- Everybody's protest novel -- Encounter on the Seine : black meets brown -- Princes and powers -- Many thousands gone -- Stranger in the village -- A question of identity -- The male prison -- Carmen Jones : the dark is light enough -- Equal in Paris -- Notes of a native son -- Faulkner and desegregation -- The crusade of indignation -- A fly in buttermilk -- The discovery of what it means to be an American -- On Catfish Row -- Nobody knows my name -- The northern Protestant -- Fifth Avenue, uptown -- They can't turn back -- In search of a majority -- Notes for a hypothetical novel -- The dangerous road before Martin Luther King -- East River, downtown. |
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Alas, poor Richard -- The black boy looks at the white boy -- The new lost generation -- The creative process -- Color -- A talk to teachers -- The fire next time -- Nothing personal -- Words of a native son -- The American dream and the American Negro -- White man's guilt -- A report from occupied territory -- Negroes are anti-semitic because they're anti-white -- White racism or world community? -- Sweet Lorraine -- No name in the street -- A review of Roots -- The devil finds work -- An open letter to Mr. Carter -- Every good-bye ain't gone -- If Black English isn't a language, then tell me, what is? -- An open letter to the born again -- Dark days -- Notes on the house of bondage -- Here be dragons. |
| Summary |
Complete collection of major nonfiction writings by author James Baldwin, composed between 1948 and 1985, providing his perceptions of the twentieth century black American experience. |
| Subject |
American literature -- African American authors.
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African American authors.
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11030 essays in English general p1030 American writers 60030 texts |
| Added Title |
Irwin T. and Shirley Holtzman Special Collection of Contemporary American and English Literature.
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| Standard No. |
13389645 664136833 732674235 |
| ISBN |
0312643063 |
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9780312643065 |
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0312643071 (lim. ed.) |
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9780312643072 (lim. ed.) |
| OCLC # |
12107577 |
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