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James Baldwin Review

Volume 10

Edited by Douglas Field, Justin Joyce and Dwight McBride

James Baldwin Review
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  • ISBN: 9781526188687
  • Publish Date: Sep 2024
  • Publisher: Manchester University Press
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    • Format: Paperback
    • Pages: 386
    • Price: £25.00
    • Published Date: September 2024

    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: Know Whence You Came - Justin A. Joyce
    Feature Essays
    Monster in the Archive - Robert F. Reid-Pharr
    Notes on Hotel Camp: Sontag Meets Baldwin in Giovanni's Room - William J. Maxwell
    "The Confrontation": James Baldwin's Tour for CORE, May 1963 - Ed Pavlic
    JB in California, May 7, 1963
    "These Things We Sort of Know": Speech at U.C. Berkeley - James Baldwin
    A Conversation with James Baldwin, May 7, 1963 - Elsa Knight Thompson and John Leonard
    "The Level of a Confrontation": Speech at San Francisco Masonic Temple - James Baldwin
    Essays
    James Baldwin's Psychoanalysis - Dorothy Stringer
    Preaching Without a Pulpit: Toward a Womanist Hermeneutic of Regeneration in Just Above My Head - Melanie R. Hill
    James Baldwin's Hypothetical Novel: "Ignorant Armies" and the Making of Another Country - Nicholas Bredie
    Graduate Student Essay Award Winner
    Translating le vrai americain: Multilingualism in Henry James's The Ambassadors and James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room - Jimin Kang
    Eulogies
    A Brother's Love - Maya Angelou
    Jimmy! - Amiri Baraka
    Remembering James Baldwin - Ernest A. Champion
    Life in His Language - Toni Morrison
    Jimmy in the House - William Styron
    Remembrances, Reflections, Inspirations
    81 Horatio Street: Jimmy was Here - Trevor Baldwin
    James Baldwin: In Theory and Beyond - Lawrie Balfour
    Politics - Nicholas Boggs
    What's Coming on Down the Line! - Jennifer DeVere Brody
    The Great Force of History - Lonnie G. Bunch III
    James Baldwin's Reflection on Masculinity in America: Poetics of the Color Line - Frieda Ekotto
    Running toward Fear - Eddie S. Glaude, Jr.
    Finding Jimmy, Waiting for Giovanni - Jewelle Gomez
    Becoming a Biographer of James Baldwin - David Leeming
    Founding the James Baldwin Collective - Samuel Legitimus
    "Extract" - Glenn Ligon
    My Honeysuckle Victory - David Linx
    Seeing James Baldwin through a Black Photographic Lens - Irma McClaurin
    The End of Safety - Fahamu Pecou
    Absorbing Brilliance: Rediscovering Baldwin's Essays - Lauren Rusk
    On Teaching Baldwin - William J. Spurlin
    Everybody Loves Jimmy Now - Rinaldo Walcott
    Interview
    "James Baldwin, Return of the Prophet": An Interview - Cornel West
    Dispatch
    Sedat Pakay's Photographs of James Baldwin in Istanbul - Donald Spanel
    From the Field
    Collected Roundtable Provocations on I Heard It Through the Grapevine
    "There Are No Signs": I Heard It Through the Grapevine and Donald Glover's Atlanta - Simon Abramowitsch
    Movements Never Stay Still - Douglas Field
    Style in the Face of Sorrow - Monika Gehlawat
    I Heard It Through the Grapevine: The Language of the Streets, Blues Literature, and the Church: Commentary on James Baldwin's 1982 film - Melanie R. Hill
    The Dirge and the Second Line: A Meditation on Grapevine and Eyes Inspired by "Old Lem" - Josslyn J. Luckett
    Not a Sociologist: James Baldwin's Evolving Role in the Early 1980s - D. Quentin Miller
    Youth, Violence, and Queer Futurity in I Heard It Through the Grapevine - Jared O'Connor
    On the Road with Baldwin - Hayley O'Malley
    Demons be Damned! - Robert F. Reid-Pharr
    Their Whole World in Our Hands: Baldwin's Responsibility to Children - J. Kenneth Stuckey
    Of the Sorrow Songs: Baldwin, Vérité, Hope - Karen Thorsen
    Bibliographic Essay
    James Baldwin in the USSR and Post-Soviet Countries, 1970s-2010s - Yuri Stulov
    Archival Sources Overview
    Baldwin Archival Repositories

    Editors

    Douglas Field is Professor of Twentieth Century American Literature at the University of Manchester

    Justin A. Joyce is Managing Editor of James Baldwin Review

    Dwight A. McBride is Gerald Early Distinguished Professor of African & African American Studies at Washington University in St. Louis

    James Baldwin Review

    Edited by Douglas Field, Justin Joyce, Dwight McBride

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