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James Baldwin Review

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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. This edition brings...
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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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Price: £25.00
Pages: 216
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Publication Date: 26 September 2023
ISBN: 9781526176158
Format: Paperback
BISACs:

LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American & Black, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Blues, POETRY / American / African American & Black, Human rights, civil rights, Biography, Literature and Literary studies

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Douglas Field is Professor of Twentieth Century American Literature at the University of Manchester

Justin A. Joyce is Research Director at The New School, New York City

Dwight A. McBride is President of The New School, New York City

Introduction
Same Old Piano, Playing the Blues
Justin A. Joyce

Feature Essay
“This Loaded Present”: Selma, 1963
Davis W. Houck

Essays
On the Fugitive Radicalism of Jimmy’s Blues
Marta Werbanowska

The Architecture of Love in the Poetic Thinking of James Baldwin and Jericho Brown
Joanna Makowska

Graduate Student Essay Award Winner
“Love Is the Key”: James Baldwin’s Poethics of Love
Emanuela Maltese

Dispatches
Jimmy’s Jubilee: A Review
Herb Boyd

“A Very Dangerous Effort”: James Baldwin’s Encounter with the BBC in 1963
Robert J. Corber

The View from the Riverbank: James Baldwin and The Evidence of Things Not Seen
Holly Lowe Jones

Moment of Truth in Atlanta: James Baldwin Remembered (1989)
Walter Lowe Jr.

Bibliographic essay
From A Furious Passage (1966) to Living in Fire (2019): A Review of Biographies about James Baldwin
William Henry Pruitt III

Interview
“You Know What’s Cool About James Baldwin, Man?”: An Interview with Cecil Brown
Matt Sandler

From the Field
Composing James Baldwin’s Joyful Song
Rashida K. Braggs with William Murray and Elijah Parks