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: 1.70cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.440kg
ISBN:  

9781526196088

ISBN 10:   1526196085
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   23 September 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introductions 1 Hic Sunt Dracones: An Editorial Preface on the American Conundrum – Justin A. Joyce 2 “A new sense of life’s possibilities”: European Baldwins – Remo Verdickt, Pieter Vermeulen, and Gianna Zocco Feature Essay 3 Each of Us Contains the Other: My Lives with James Baldwin – Magdalena Zaborowska Essays 4 The New German Baldwin and His Company. A Comparative Study of the Paratexts in Dtv’s edition of James Baldwin – Gianna Zocco 5 Baldwin’s European Digital Circulation: More Tweets of a Native Son – Remo Verdickt and Jonathan Hoebeke 6 Baldwin in Spain: Reception, Censorship, and Political (Mis)appropriations – Jordi Cornellà Detrell 7 Confessions of Bad Faith: Giovanni’s Room as James Baldwin’s Response to European Existentialism – Sonja Pyykkö 8 Baldwin’s Postcolonial Turn: Black Families from Moynihan to No Name in the Street – Gerald Naughton Graduate Student Essay Award Winner 9 It’s Not All Black and White: Dutch Translations of The Fire Next Time – Katinka Zeven Interviews 10 Witness to a World in Crisis: An Interview with René Aguigah – Remo Verdickt 11 “I was a Witness”: An Interview with Jack Hazan – John Livesey 12 “Translating is Also a Way of Doing Justice”: A Survey of Baldwin’s European Translators – Remo Verdickt From the Field 13 James Baldwin and Britain: Emerging Insights – Isabel Taube Dispatches 14 Closets Foreign and Familiar: Giovanni’s Room at the International Theater of Amsterdam – Monica B. Pearl 15 To Resonate Still: A Letter to James Baldwin – Yousra Benfquih 16 In the Family: Sonic Black Queer Genealogies and No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin – Rebecca Wanzo 17 Exhibition Review: “This Morning, This Evening, So Soon: James Baldwin and the Voices of Queer Resistance” – Monika Gehlawat Bibliographic Essay 18 Baldwin’s Reception in France in the Twenty-First Century: Publishing Flurry and Political Relevance – Claudine Raynaud -- .

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Author Information

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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