Notes of a Native Son | Baldwin's Thoughts About African-American Identity
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Korb discusses Baldwin’s thoughts about African-
American identity in Baldwin’s work.
The essays that comprise Baldwin’s Notes of a Native Son were initially published in numerous magazines over a period of seven years. Despite the different places and periods in which Baldwin wrote these ten essays, they are remarkably of a piece, in fact, so much so that when African American scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., first read the collection as a teenager in 1965, he recalls that ‘‘It was the first time I had heard a voice capturing the terrible exhilaration and anxiety of being a person of African descent in this country.’’ From its publication to the present...
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