Authors: James Baldwin
ISBN-13: 9780807064313, ISBN-10: 0807064319
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Beacon
Date Published: July 1984
Edition: None
In 1953, a young James Baldwin published Go Tell It on the Mountain, winning acclaim as a literary star and one of the leading voices of the African-American experience. Although Baldwin would spend the bulk of his adult life in France, his writing always addressed the complexities at the heart of America, viewed through the lens of the consummate outsider.
Originally published in 1955, James Baldwin's first nonfiction book has become a classic. These searing essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and Americans abroad remain as powerful today as when they were written.
A straight-from-the-shoulder writerwriting about the troubled problems of this troubled earthwith an illuminating intensity that should influence for the better all who ponder on the things books say....Few American writers handle words more effectively in the essay form than James Baldwin. The New York Times Book Review
Acknowledgments | vii | |
Preface to the 1984 Edition | ix | |
Autobiographical Notes | 3 | |
I | ||
Everybody's Protest Novel | 13 | |
Many Thousands Gone | 24 | |
Carmen Jones: The Dark Is Light Enough | 46 | |
II | ||
The Harlem Ghetto | 57 | |
Journey to Atlanta | 73 | |
Notes of a Native Son | 85 | |
III | ||
Encounter on the Seine: Black Meets Brown | 117 | |
A Question of Identity | 124 | |
Equal in Paris | 138 | |
Stranger in the Village | 159 |