Bibliograph

Collected essays, James Baldwin

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Collected essays, James Baldwin

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Bibliography: p. 856-869

Index

no index present

Literary Form

essays

Main title

Collected essays

Oclc number

37201368

Responsibility statement

James Baldwin

Series statement

The library of America, 98

Summary

Offers a comprehensive gathering of Baldwin's nonfiction works that articulates issues of race, democracy, and American identity. His landmark collections, Notes of a native son and Nobody knows my name fuse the personal, literary, and the political. The classic, The fire next time, provides an analysis of America's racial divide and No name in the street and The Devil finds work chart is continuing response to the social and political turbulence of his era. Thirty-six additional essays--nine previously uncollected--record insights into the language of Shakespeare, and poetry of Langston Hughes, the music of Earl Hines, and more. --From publisher description

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Baldwin, collected essays

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