Just Above My Head (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: James Baldwin
- First Published: 1979
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: The 1940’s to the 1970’s
- Setting: New York City; Birmingham, Alabama; Paris; and London
- Genres: Long fiction, Realism, Social realism
- Subjects: African Americans, New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Gay men, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Twentieth century, New York City, Paris, Brothers, Singing or singers, London, Gospel music, Preaching
- Locales: Birmingham, AL, New York, NY, Paris, France, London, England
Characters Discussed
Hall Montana, a black show business promoter. Hall had served as his brother Arthur’s manager until Arthur’s death at the age of thirty-nine. Tall, slim, and handsome, at the age of forty-eight, two years after Arthur’s death, Hall is still trying to reconcile himself to his brother’s life and his death in a London pub. Hall is sensitive, reflective, reflexive, and perceptive, and in piecing together his brother’s life he comes to realize more about himself and about life in general. He calls the story that he narrates “a love song to my...
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