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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: 248
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Publication Date: 27 September 2022
ISBN: 9781526170057
Format: Paperback
BISACs:

LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American & Black, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Blues, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism, Human rights, civil rights, Theatre studies, Music reviews and criticism
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Introduction:
Brothers or Fools
Justin A. Joyce

Feature Essay:
Nonviolence, Black Power, and “the citizens of Pompeii”: James Baldwin’s 1968
Ed Pavlic

Essays:
“A Kind of Joy”: Laughing and Grinning through Sonny’s Blues
James Nikopoulos
“Forging a New Language”: A New Spatiotemporal Logic in James Baldwin’s The Evidence of Things Not Seen
Özge Özbek Akiman
Tortuous Time: Undoing the Past in Jean Améry and James Baldwin
Joseph Weiss
Baldwin and the Role of the Citizen Artist
Monika Gehlawat

Graduate Student Essay Award Winner:
Reaching Toward the Reader: James Baldwin’s Voice in “Notes of a Native Son”
Beth Tillman

Dispatches:
“This Music Begins on the Auction Block”: Learning in the Twenty-First Century from James Baldwin on Music
Josh Friedberg
Making Experiences Our Own: A Review of The Amen Corner, 2021
Ijeoma N. Njaka
Baldwin Boxed In at Virginia State Symposium: A Review
Herb Boyd
Celia, James, and Me
Michael A.L. Broyles

Bibliographic Essay :
The Evidence of Things Translated: Circulating Baldwin in Contemporary Europe
Remo Verdickt

Interview:
They Came to See if I’m for Real: James Baldwin Interviewed by Hakim Jamal for LA Free Press (1968)
Ed Pavlic