Criticism

Cohen, William A. "Liberalism, Libido, Liberation: Baldwin's Another Country." Genders (Winter 1991): 1-21.

Explores the roles of race, sexual identity, and liberal ideology in Baldwin's Another Country.

DeGout, Yasmin Y. "Dividing the Mind: Contradictory Portraits of Homoerotic Love in Giovanni's Room." African American Review 26, No. 3 (Fall 1992): 425-35.

Discusses the conflicting images of homosexuality as both natural and deviant in Baldwin's Giovanni's Room.

Olson, Barbara K. "'Come-to-Jesus Stuff' in James Baldwin's Go Tell It on the Mountain and The Amen Corner." African American Review 31, No. 2 (Summer 1997): 295-301.

Analyzes how Baldwin's The Amen Corner functions as a response to the reception of his novel Go Tell It on the Mountain.

Porter, Horace. "The South in Go Tell It on the Mountain: Baldwin's Personal Confrontation." In New Essays on Go Tell It on the Mountain, edited by Trudier Harris, pp. 59-75. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Traces the role of the South in Baldwin's Go Tell It on The Mountain and asserts that Baldwin's experience of the South was derived secondhand from other sources.

Reid-Pharr, Robert F. "Tearing the Goat's Flesh: Homosexuality, Abjection and the Production of a Late Twentieth-Century Black Masculinity." Studies in the Novel XXVIII, No. 3 (Fall 1996): 372-94.

Discusses James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room, Eldridge Cleaver's Soul on Ice, and Piri Thomas' Down These Mean Streets, concept of black masculinity.

Tsomondo, Thorell. "Other Tale to Tell: 'Sonny's Blues' and Waiting for the Rain." Critique 36, No. 3 (Spring 1995): 195-209.

Asserts that Baldwin and Charles Mungoshi operate as artists and historians in "Sonny's Blues" and Waiting for the Rain, respectively, because of the multiple stories which arise out of the narratives.