
James Baldwin Centennial
Date Published: June 19, 2024
In celebration of James Baldwin's 100th birthday, Duke University Press is pleased to present this selection of articles and books, most made freely available through December 31, 2024.
The introduction to each book is free, and books may be purchased at dukeupress.edu.
BOOK
Little Man, Little Man: A Story of Childhood
James Baldwin
2018
BOOK
Me and My House: James Baldwin's Last Decade in France
Magdalena J. Zaborowska
2018
BOOK
James Baldwin’s Turkish Decade: Erotics of Exile
Magdalena J. Zaborowska
2008
BOOK CHAPTER
Baldwin’s Sissy Heroics
Marlon B. Ross
Sissy Insurgencies:A Racial Anatomy of Unfit Manliness 2022
JOURNAL ARTICLE
James Baldwin and the Power of Black Muslim Language
Ellen McLarney
Social Text 138, 2019
JOURNAL ARTICLE
The Treacherous Body: Isolation, Confession, and Community in James Baldwin
Peter Kerry Powers
American Literature 77:4, 2005
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Toward Global Democracy: James Baldwin and the Stoic Vision of Amor Fati
Daniel T. O'Hara
boundary 2 33:3, 2006
JOURNAL ARTICLE
James Baldwin and the Unhistoric Life of Race
Christopher Freeburg
South Atlantic Quarterly 112:2, 2013
JOURNAL ARTICLE
James Baldwin and the Anti-Black Force of Law: On Excessive Violence and Exceeding Violence
Jesse A. Goldberg
Public Culture 31:3, 2019
JOURNAL ARTICLE
The Dramatist’s Call to Action: The Provocative Prescience of James Baldwin and María Irene Fornés
Brian Eugenio Herrera
Theater 49:1, 2019
JOURNAL ARTICLE
James Baldwin: The Crucial Situation
Fred L. Standley
South Atlantic Quarterly 65:3, 1966
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Tensions, Terrors, Tenderness: James Baldwin’s Politics of Comparison
Begüm Adalet
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 38:3, 2018
JOURNAL ARTICLE
James Baldwin’s Late Encounters with Africa
Dagmawi Woubshet
Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art 42-43, 2018
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Who Set You Feelin'? Harlem, Communal Affect, and the Great Migration Narrative in James Baldwin's “Sonny's Blues”
John Claborn
English Language Notes 48:1, 2010
JOURNAL ARTICLE
The Paris Paradox: Colorblindness and Colonialism in African American Expatriate Fiction
Laila Amine
American Literature 87:4, 2015
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Baldwin’s Hemingway: The Sun Also Rises in Giovanni’s Room, with a Twist
Jessica Kent
Twentieth-Century Literature 63:1, 2017