Sonny's Blues

Sonny's Blues Criticism

• Introduction
• Principal Works
• Essays
  • Black Literature Revisited: 'Sonny's Blues'
  • The Black Musician: The Black Hero as Light Bearer
  • James Baldwin's 'Sonny's Blues': A Message in Music
  • The Black Musician as Literary Hero: Baldwin's 'Sonny's Blues' and Kelley's 'Cry for Me'
  • James Baldwin's 'Sonny's Blues': Complicated and Simple
  • The Fear and the Fury
  • James Baldwin's Blues and the Function of Art
  • Words and Music: Narrative Ambiguity in 'Sonny's Blues'
  • The Jazz-Blues Motif in James Baldwin's 'Sonny's Blues'
  • James Baldwin's 'Sonny's Blues': Childhood, Light, and Art
  • James Baldwin's Vision of Otherness in 'Sonny's Blues' and Giovanni's Room
  • Baldwin, Bebop, and 'Sonny's Blues'
• Further Reading