Sonny's Blues, James Baldwin - Further Reading

FURTHER READING

Jones, Harry L. "Style, Form, and Content in the Short Fiction of James Baldwin." In James Baldwin: A Critical Evaluation, edited by Therman B. O'Daniel, pp. 143-50. Washington, D.C.: Howard University Press, 1977.

Considers "Sonny's Blues" "the most perfectly realized story" in Going to Meet the Man.

Levensohn, Alan. "The Artist Must Outwit the Celebrity." The Christian Science Monitor 57, No. 301 (November 18, 1965): 15.

Positive assessment of Going to Meet the Man, with particular emphasis on "Sonny's Blues."

Mosher, Marlene. "Baldwin's 'Sonny's Blues'." Explicator 40, No. 4 (Summer 1982): 59.

Notes religious allusions in "Sonny's Blues."

——. "James Baldwin's Blues." CLA Journal XXVI, No. 1 (1982): 112-24.

Explores Baldwin's use of the blues as a metaphor in...

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