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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


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