James Baldwin Review
Volume 9
Edited by Douglas Field, Justin Joyce and Dwight McBride
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- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 216
- Price: £25.00
- Published Date: September 2023
Description
James Baldwin Review (JBR) is an annual journal that brings together a wide array of peer-reviewed critical and creative work on the life, writings, and legacy of James Baldwin. In addition to these cutting-edge contributions, each issue contains a review of recent Baldwin scholarship and an award-winning graduate student essay. James Baldwin Review publishes essays that invigorate scholarship on James Baldwin; catalyze explorations of the literary, political, and cultural influence of Baldwin's writing and political activism; and deepen our understanding and appreciation of this complex and luminary figure.
Contents
Introduction
Same Old Piano, Playing the Blues
Justin A. Joyce
Feature Essay
"This Loaded Present": Selma, 1963
Davis W. Houck
Essays
On the Fugitive Radicalism of Jimmy's Blues
Marta Werbanowska
The Architecture of Love in the Poetic Thinking of James Baldwin and Jericho Brown
Joanna Makowska
Graduate Student Essay Award Winner
"Love Is the Key": James Baldwin's Poethics of Love
Emanuela Maltese
Dispatches
Jimmy's Jubilee: A Review
Herb Boyd
"A Very Dangerous Effort": James Baldwin's Encounter with the BBC in 1963
Robert J. Corber
The View from the Riverbank: James Baldwin and The Evidence of Things Not Seen
Holly Lowe Jones
Moment of Truth in Atlanta: James Baldwin Remembered (1989)
Walter Lowe Jr.
Bibliographic essay
From A Furious Passage (1966) to Living in Fire (2019): A Review of Biographies about James Baldwin
William Henry Pruitt III
Interview
"You Know What's Cool About James Baldwin, Man?": An Interview with Cecil Brown
Matt Sandler
From the Field
Composing James Baldwin's Joyful Song
Rashida K. Braggs with William Murray and Elijah Parks
Editors
Douglas Field is Professor of Twentieth Century American Literature at the University of Manchester
Justin A. Joyce is Research Director at The New School, New York City
Dwight A. McBride is President of The New School, New York City
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