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James Baldwin Review

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The 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 br...
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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: 224
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Publication Date: 08 September 2019
ISBN: 9781526143198
Format: Paperback
BISACs:

LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American & Black, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, Social discrimination and social justice
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1 Introduction: Celebrating Our Current “Baldwin Moment” - Dwight A. McBride
Feature Essay
2 The Magician’s Serpent: Race and the Tragedy of American Democracy - Eddie S. Glaude, Jr.
Essays
3 What “No Chart Can Tell Us”: Ordinary Intimacies in Emerson, Du Bois, and Baldwin - Prentiss Clark
4 Strangers in the Village: James Baldwin, Teju Cole, and Glenn Ligon - Monika Gehlawat
Graduate Student Essay Award
5 Beyond Understanding: James Baldwin’s Pragmatist Aesthetics - Rohan Ghatage
Multi-Media Feature
6 Time is Now: Photography and Social Change in James Baldwin’s America - Makeda Best
Dispatches
7 Sitting at Baldwin’s Table - Lindsey R. Swindall
8 Baldwin This Time: An Excerpt from Bill V. Mullen’s New Biography, James Baldwin: Living in Fire, and an Interview with the Author - Bill V. Mullen
9 “We can love one another in other ways”: Collaborating with James Baldwin on a Screenplay of
Giovanni’s Room - Michael Raeburn
Bibliographic Essay
10 Trends in James Baldwin Criticism, 2015–16 - Jenny M. James
Reviews
11 “Oceans of Love”: A Review of Hilton Als’ God Made My Face: A Collective Portrait of James Baldwin - Leah Mirakhor
12 Romancing Beale Street - Robert J. Corber
13 A Star-Cross’d Nation: If Beale Street Could Talk, 2019 - Bill Schwarz
From the Field
14 James Baldwin: Interventions: A Session at the 2019 Modern Language Association Convention - Robert Jackson, Sharon P. Holland, and Shawn Salvant