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James Baldwin Criticism

James Baldwin stands as a pivotal figure in American literature, celebrated for his profound exploration of race, sexuality, and identity through a diverse array of literary forms including novels, essays, and plays. His work is characterized by a deep moral commitment to depict reality with clarity, avoiding illusions. Baldwin's seminal debut, Go Tell It on the Mountain, offers a semi-autobiographical look into his youthful spiritual struggles, as explored in Fathers, Gods, and Religion: Perceptions of Christianity and Ethnic Faith in James Baldwin. This novel and others, like Giovanni's Room, delve into the complexities of identity and are the focus of numerous critical analyses, such as Displacing Desire: Passing, Nostalgia, and Giovanni's Room, which examines the themes of homosexuality and alienation.

Contents

  • Principal Works
  • Baldwin, James (Vol. 2)
  • Baldwin, James (Vol. 1)
  • Baldwin, James (Vol. 8)
  • Baldwin, James (Vol. 5)
  • Baldwin, James (Vol. 17)
    • Community of Pride
    • Sorry Lives
    • From Harlem to Paris
    • A Squalid World
    • The Cities of the Plain
    • A Protest of His Own
    • The Author in Search of Himself
    • James Baldwin as Spokesman
    • Critics' Choices for Christmas: 'Nobody Knows My Name'
    • Not Enough of a World to Grow In
    • The Two Baldwins
    • Another Country for an Arkansas Traveler
    • The Identity of James Baldwin
    • What Color Is God?
    • James Baldwin: Voice of a Revolution
    • Dark Angel: The Writings of James Baldwin
    • Baldwin's Autobiographical Essays: The Problem of Negro Identity
    • Common Burden: Baldwin Points Duty of Negro and White
    • Channel X: Two Plays on the Race Conflict
    • After the Tranquillized Fifties
    • America
    • Everybody Knows My Name
    • The Novels of James Baldwin
    • Frank Silvera and Bea Richards Head Cast
    • The Novels and Essays of James Baldwin: Case-Book a 'Lover's War' with the United States
    • A Special Corner on Truth
    • Looking for the Man
    • James Baldwin
    • Baldwin: The Prophet as Artist
    • His Cardboard Lovers
    • News from the Novel: 'Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone'
    • James Baldwin: Caliban to Prospero
    • 'Another Country': Baldwin's New York Novel
    • Walter Meserve
    • James Baldwin's Baptism
    • Black and White
    • Bruce Cook
    • Books Noted: 'If Beale Street Could Talk'
    • John Simon
    • 'The Devil Finds Work'
    • The Defiant One
    • James Baldwin Overcomes
    • James Baldwin Writing and Talking
    • Cliches of Degradation
    • There's a Heaven Somewhere
    • Books and the Arts: 'Just above My Head'
    • Father and Son
    • Blues for Mr. Baldwin
  • Baldwin, James (Vol. 13)
    • The Lesson of the Master: Henry James and James Baldwin
    • C.W.E. Bigsby
    • Bright Book of Life: American Novelists & Storytellers from Hemingway to Mailer
    • James Baldwin: A Collection of Critical Essays
    • James Baldwin's 'Sonny's Blues': Complicated and Simple
  • Baldwin, James (Vol. 127)
  • Baldwin, James (Vol. 15)
    • 'Just Above My Head'
    • American Giants
    • Roth & Baldwin: Coming Home
    • Coming On Strong
    • Books: 'Just Above My Head'
    • James Baldwin: A Larger Apprehension of Our Song
  • Further Reading