Baldwin, James (Vol. 8) - Baldwin, James 1924–
Baldwin, James 1924–
Baldwin is a black American essayist, novelist, short story writer, and playwright. His work consistently reflects a moral purpose: to make art reflect a sense of reality and clarity, rather than the falsehood of illusion. (See also CLC, Vols. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and Contemporary Authors, Vols. 1-4, rev. ed.)
Of the fiction produced by American Blacks after the Hughes-Wright-Himes generation, James Baldwin's … Going to Meet the Man (1965) seems to me the most important single short story collection and its controversial title piece the most powerful story by a recent American Black writer. Out of such stock characters as a Southern sheriff, his sexually unexciting wife, and his brutally mistreated black victims, Baldwin has created another hideous parable of the sixties (a story still so shocking in its impact as to evoke more than one cry of protest when I included it in an anthology designed for university...
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