... Book Reviews 201 Black Manhood in James Baldwin, Ernest J. Gaines, and August Wilson. By Keith Clark. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press. 2002. x, 164 pp. $34.95. The Origins of African American Literature...

...Peter Kerry Powers Peter The Treacherous Body: Isolation, Confession, Kerry and Community in James Baldwin Powers The great problem is how to be in the best sense of that kaleidoscopic word—a man.—James Baldwin, ‘‘The Male...

...Shane Vogel © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 The Scary Mason-Dixon Line: African American Writers and the South . By Trudier Harris. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press. 2009. xi, 247 pp. $37.50. James Baldwin's Turkish Decade: Erotics of Exile . By Magdalena J...

...Laila Amine This essay maps out a six-year literary transformation of Paris noir from 1957 to 1963 that overlaps with the Algerian war for independence from France (1954–1962). In this journey that transits from Parisian utopianism to postcolonial criticism, from Richard Wright and James Baldwin's...

... into a range of aesthetic experiences. This can be observed in the Beethovenian ekphrasis featured in prose works by James Weldon Johnson, Langston Hughes, James Baldwin, and Ralph Ellison—four writers whose works have also been considered indebted to blues and jazz musical influences and who approach...

...Merve Emre This essay argues that literary redescriptions of international American Express offices by queer writers like Gregory Corso, William S. Burroughs, and James Baldwin allowed the 1960s literary counterculture to establish a relationship to American corporate culture grounded in irony...

...Michael Maguire Abstract This essay illuminates the history of what David Foster Wallace dubbed the “conspicuously young” novelist (CYN), drawing on a series of brief case studies (F. Scott Fitzgerald, Raymond Radiguet, Carson McCullers, Truman Capote, Sylvia Plath, and James Baldwin...

... Jacobs, Mary Prince, Sojourner Truth, and James Baldwin, the essay argues for what it calls the story of the heart : a minoritized account of pain that deforms sentimental language to register at once somatically, mentally, and intersubjectively. Because of its insecure legibility, the story of the heart...

... whites and the second to show how poor whites unsettle whiteness. Together, the books illustrate the possibilities—but also the limitations—of these approaches. ▪ ▪ ▪ As long as you think you’re white, there’s no hope for you. —James Baldwin, The Price of the Ticket (1989) In Poverty...

... into the modern gay male identity (17). Chapter 2, “Going to Meet the Man in Abu Ghraib,” uses a James Baldwin short story to read the torture of Iraqi men at Abu Ghraib as the kind of homoerotic extension of empire that, Pérez argues throughout this volume, enables the coherence of gay modernity. Perhaps...

... in inspiring and interrogating cross-disciplinary discussions about racial hierarchy and national belonging at the mid-twentieth-century moment. Jay Garcia’s Psychol­ ogy Comes to Harlem reveals how Richard Wright, Chester Himes, Ralph Elli- son, and James Baldwin, by incorporating psychological...

... has revitalized that significance. American Literature, Volume 85, Number 3, September 2013 DOI 10.1215/00029831-2334158  © 2013 by Duke University Press 608  American Literature A Criminal Power: James Baldwin and the Law. By D. Quentin Miller. Columbus: Ohio State Univ. Press. 2012. ix...

...Matt Bell Duke University Press 2007 Matt Black Ground, Gay Figure: Bell Working through Another Country, Black Power, and Gay Liberation In an essay that addresses James Baldwin’s recur- rent attention to the intricate...

... in the Contemporary Novel: Cormac McCarthy, Toni Morrison, and James Baldwin. By Josef Benson. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield. 2014. xxiii, 133 pp. Cloth, $65.00; e-book, $64.99. Benson undertakes a thematic analysis of McCarthy’s Blood Meridian and All the Pretty Horses, Morrison’s Song of Solomon...

...- latory comments on this major work from Oliver Wendell Holmes, Christine Ladd-Franklin, Shadworth Holloway Hodgson, George Santayana, and James Mark Baldwin, as well as letters to and from W. E. B. DuBois, William Dean...

..., and Aretha Franklin—it not only rejects romanticized notions of musical creativity but also uses the occasion of writerly engagement to listen (again) to these women. In chapters that pair Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, and James Baldwin with female singers, Lordi works to destabilize the ways black...

... from Harlem” ( 1961 ), James Baldwin condemns public housing as one of the greatest aesthetic and moral failures of modern urbanism, arguing that its smashed windows and defaced walls are outer expressions of Harlem’s contempt for so-called slum rehabilitation. “The projects are hideous,” Baldwin...

... and national belonging at the mid-twentieth-century moment. Jay Garcia’s Psychol­ ogy Comes to Harlem reveals how Richard Wright, Chester Himes, Ralph Elli- son, and James Baldwin, by incorporating psychological discourses in the writings they published in the 1940s and 1950s, reframed public conversa...

... these moments of “fascinating effeminacy,” such as the gender nonconformity linking Carson McCullers, Truman Capote, Gore Vidal, and James Baldwin. In the Name of the Mother: Italian Americans, African Americans, and Modernity from Booker T. Washington to Bruce Springsteen . By Samuele F. S. Pardini...

... and writing. Turning from poststructuralist accounts of language to research in literacy by Walter Ong, Jack Goody, and Eric Havelock, this work will be of interest to scholars across multiple disciplines. James Baldwin and the Queer Imagination. By Matt Brim. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Mich- igan Press...