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American Literature (2003) 75 (1): 201–203.
Published: 01 March 2003
... 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...
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American Literature (2005) 77 (4): 787–813.
Published: 01 December 2005
...Peter Kerry Powers © 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 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...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 225–227.
Published: 01 March 2010
...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...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (1): 107–136.
Published: 01 March 2015
...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...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (4): 739–768.
Published: 01 December 2015
...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...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 623–652.
Published: 01 December 2020
... 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...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (2): 273–301.
Published: 01 June 2013
...D. Berton Emerson Emerson’s essay reassesses representative texts of the popular antebellum tradition known as Old Southwestern Humor—among them Augustus Baldwin Longstreet’s Georgia Scenes (1835), Johnson Jones Hooper’s Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs (1845), and George Washington Harris’s Sut...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (1): 87–114.
Published: 01 March 2021
...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...
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American Literature (2007) 79 (3): 577–603.
Published: 01 September 2007
...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...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (3): 664–666.
Published: 01 September 2018
...Joseph Darda The Racial Imaginary of the Cold War Kitchen: From Sokol’niki Park to Chicago’s South Side . By Kate A. Baldwin . Hanover, NH : Dartmouth College Press . 2016 . xviii, 236 pp. Cloth , $85.00 ; paper, $45.00 ; e-book, $39.99 . Reading America: Citizenship...
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American Literature (2022) 94 (3): 527–549.
Published: 01 September 2022
... different aspects of the architecture when walking around a building. Baldwin ( 1961 : 64) claimed, “the projects . . . are an insult to the meanest intelligence.” Respectfully, I contend the greater insult is to dismiss public housing both as a form of shelter in the twenty-first century and as a site...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (3): 654–656.
Published: 01 September 2018
... Victorian homoeroticism 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...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (2): 398–400.
Published: 01 June 2015
... 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...
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American Literature (2022) 94 (3): 563–572.
Published: 01 September 2022
... 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...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (3): 607–614.
Published: 01 September 2013
... 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...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (2): 421–427.
Published: 01 June 2015
... 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...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (3): 633–641.
Published: 01 September 2015
... 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...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (2): 430–438.
Published: 01 June 2016
...: The Art and Lives of James Baldwin . By Douglas Field. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 2015. x, 220 pp. Cloth, $35.00; e-book available. Assembling a “nuanced portrait” of Baldwin’s life and work, All Those Strangers weaves a cultural history of the author amid the “transformative politics...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (3): 613–641.
Published: 01 September 2018
... of black regional autonomy and romantic love. In addition, three essays directly inform the symbolic construction of her characters and the historical continuities they make visible: James Baldwin’s 1962 essay, “My Dungeon Shook,” which charges white America with the crime of innocence; a 1978 Essence...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (4): 841–843.
Published: 01 December 2015
..., 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...
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