Overview

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.

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Author:   Douglas Field ,  Justin Joyce ,  Dwight McBride
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
Imprint:   Manchester University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.533kg
ISBN:  

9781526188687

ISBN 10:   1526188686
Pages:   386
Publication Date:   24 September 2024
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of 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 -- .

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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

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