Collected essays
This book offers a comprehensive gathering of Baldwin's nonfiction works that articulate issues of race, democracy, and American identity. His landmark collections Notes of a Native Son and Nobody Knows My Name fuse the personal, literary, and the political. The classic The Fire Next Time provi...
| Uniform Title: | Essays. Selections |
|---|---|
| Main Author: | Baldwin, James, 1924-1987, |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Library of America,
[1998]
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| Physical Description: |
x, 869 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Series: |
Library of America ;
98. |
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- Notes of a native son
- Autobiographical notes
- Everybody's protest novel
- Many thousands gone
- Carmen Jones : the dark Is light enough
- Harlem ghetto
- Journey to Atlanta
- Notes of a native son
- Encounter on the Seine : black meets brown
- A question of identity
- Equal in Paris
- Stranger in the village
- Nobody knows my name
- Discovery of what it means to be an American
- Princes and powers
- Fifth Avenue, Uptown: a letter from Harlem
- East River, Downtown : postscript to a letter from Harlem
- A fly in buttermilk
- Nobody knows my name: a letter from the South
- Faulkner and desegregation
- In search of a majority
- Notes for a hypothetical novel
- Male prison
- Northern Protestant
- Alas, poor Richard
- Black boy looks at the white boy
- Fire next time
- My dungeon shook : letter to my nephew
- Down at the cross
- No name in the street
- Devil finds work
- Other essays
- Smaller than life
- History as nightmare
- Image of the negro
- Lockridge : 'the American myth'
- Preservation of innocence
- Negro at home and abroad
- Crusade of indignation
- Sermons and blues
- On Catfish Row
- They can't turn back
- Dangerous road before Martin Luther King
- New lost generation
- Creative process
- Color
- A talk to teachers
- "This nettle, danger ..."
- Nothing personal
- Words of a native son
- American dream and the American negro
- On the painter Beauford Delaney
- 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
- How one black man came to be an American
- An open letter to Mr. Carter
- Last of the great masters
- Every good-bye ain't gone
- If Black English isn't a language, then tell me, what is?
- Open letter to the born again
- Dark days
- Notes on the house of bondage
- Introduction to Notes of a native son, 1984
- Freaks and the American ideal of manhood
- Price of the ticket.