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All those strangers : the art and lives of James Baldwin / Douglas Field.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, (c)2015.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780199384167
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PS3552 .A458 2015
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
Baldwin's life on the left: from New York -- Intellectual to disturber of the peace -- Radical Baldwin and the FBI: from the rights movement to black power -- James Baldwin's religion: sex, love and blues -- "I am a stranger everywhere": travel and transnational tensions in Baldwin's work -- Afterword.
Summary: This study examines how James Baldwin's fiction and non-fiction shaped and responded to key political and cultural developments in the United States from the 1940s to the 1980s. It is animated by an examination of how external forces moulded Baldwin's personal, political, and psychological development and gave shape to his writing. The book views Baldwin through a cultural-historical lens alongside a more traditional literary critical approach.
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Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE Non-fiction PS3552.45 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Link to resource Available ocn908103242

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction -- Baldwin's life on the left: from New York -- Intellectual to disturber of the peace -- Radical Baldwin and the FBI: from the rights movement to black power -- James Baldwin's religion: sex, love and blues -- "I am a stranger everywhere": travel and transnational tensions in Baldwin's work -- Afterword.

This study examines how James Baldwin's fiction and non-fiction shaped and responded to key political and cultural developments in the United States from the 1940s to the 1980s. It is animated by an examination of how external forces moulded Baldwin's personal, political, and psychological development and gave shape to his writing. The book views Baldwin through a cultural-historical lens alongside a more traditional literary critical approach.

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