... 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 © 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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

... 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...

...: 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...

... 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...

..., 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...