James Baldwin Review
Volume 10
Edited by Douglas Field, Justin Joyce and Dwight McBride
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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