Life and afterlife. Harlem during and after the Renaissance / Herb Boyd -- American writers in Paris / D. Quentin Miller -- Greenwich Village and emerging bohemianism / Douglas Field -- 1963: Baldwin's Annus mirabilis / Kevin Schultz -- East meets West: Baldwin in Istanbul in the 1960s / Magdalena Zaborowska -- Baldwin as teacher / David Leeming -- A long way from home: Baldwin in Provence / Jenny James -- Decline of reputation in the 1980s / Joseph Vogel -- The critical renaissance: 1999-present / Leah Mirakhor -- Biographies / D. Quentin Miller -- The matter of black lives: Baldwin today / Justin Joyce -- Social and cultural contexts. Intersectionality / Mark Reid -- Baldwin and the early civil rights movement / Lynn Orilla Scott -- Segregation and the South / Keith Mitchell -- The assassinations: Medgar, Malcolm, Martin Zachary Manditch-Prottas / Gospel Leslie Wingard -- "The whole body of the sound": the black musical basis of Baldwin's literary craft and social vision / Ed Pavlic -- Baldwin and psychoanalysis / Mikko Tuhkanen -- Literary contexts. The protest essay tradition / Brian Norman -- Baldwin and the black arts movement / Melba Joyce Boyd -- Baldwin and the rhetoric of confession / D. Quentin Miller -- The poetics of beautiful blackness: on Baldwin and negritude / John Drabinski -- Mid-century theatre / Frank Leon Roberts -- Sex and the twentieth century novel / Pekka Kilpelainen -- Responding to Richard Wright /Alice Mikal Craven -- Baldwin's literary friendships / Jenny James -- Reviewers, critics, and cranks / William Dow -- Baldwin's collaborative dance / Rashida Braggs -- Baldwin's literary progeny / Justin Joyce.
Summary:
James Baldwin in Context provides a wide-ranging collection of approaches to the work of an essential black American author who is just as relevant now as he was during his turbulent heyday in the mid-twentieth century. The perspectives range from those who knew Baldwin personally, to scholars who have dedicated decades to studying him, to a new generation of scholars for whom Baldwin is nearly a historical figure. This collection complements the ever-growing body of scholarship on Baldwin by combining traditional inroads into his work, such as music and expatriation, with new approaches, such as intersectionality and the Black Lives Matter movement.
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