A Political Companion to James Baldwin
"Acclaimed author and social critic James Baldwin (1924-1987) maintained that all American literature is intrinsically bound to the nation's social history and that all American writers are products of its political system. In seminal works such as Go Tell It on the Mountain, Notes of a Na...
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University Press of Kentucky,
2017.
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Table of Contents:
- ""Front cover""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Series Foreword""; ""Introduction""; ""1 â#x80;#x9C;A Most Disagreeable Mirrorâ#x80;#x9D;""; ""2 The Race of a More Perfect Union""; ""3 James Baldwin and the Politics of Disconnection""; ""4 What William F. Buckley Jr. Did Not Understand about James Baldwin""; ""5 Baldwin, Prophecy, and Politics""; ""6 The Negative Political Theology of James Baldwin""; ""7 Go Tell It on the Mountain""; ""8 Socrates in a Different Key""; ""9 Crossing Identitarian Lines""; ""10 â#x80;#x9C;Where the People Can Sing, the Poet Can Liveâ#x80;#x9D;""
- ""11 Baldwinâ#x80;#x99;s Individualism and Critique of Property""""12 James Baldwin on Violence and Disavowal""; ""13 James Baldwin and Black Lives Matter""; ""14 â#x80;#x9C;Tell Him Iâ#x80;#x99;m Goneâ#x80;#x9D;""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Selected Bibliography""; ""Contributors""