Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-212) and index.
Contents:
His cardboard lovers / Mario Puzo. The evolution of James Baldwin as essayist / Nick Aaron Ford -- The ironic voice in Baldwin's Go tell it on the mountain / Shirley S. Allen -- The south in Go tell it on the mountain : Baldwin's personal confrontation / Horace Porter -- The significance of "Notes of a native son" / Horace Porter -- "Making love in the midst of mirrors" : Giovanni's room and Another country / Carolyn Wedin Sylvander -- The exorcising medium : Another country / Trudier Harris -- A protest of his own / Irving Howe -- Some tickets are better : the mixed achievement of James Baldwin / Julius Lester -- Africa and The fire next time / David Leeming -- "Sonny's blues" : James Baldwin's image of Black community / John M. Reilly -- The jazz-blues motif in James Baldwin's "Sonny's blues" / Richard N. Albert -- Fire as the symbol of a leadening existence in "Going to meet the man" / Arthenia Bates Millican -- The fire next time this time / Mel Watkins -- Excerpt from "The celebrity's return" / Lynn Orilla Scott -- His cardboard lovers / Mario Puzo.
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