- Race relations, Black Muslims, African Americans, Afro-Americans
**From Amazon.com:** A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, *The Fire Next Time* galvanized the nation and gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement. At once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin's early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice, the book is an intensely personal and provocative document. It consists of two "letters," written on the occasion of the centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation, that exhort Americans, both black and white, to attack the terrible legacy of racism. Described by The New York Times Book Review as "sermon, ultimatum, confession, deposition, testament, and chronicle...all presented in searing, brilliant prose," The Fire Next Time stands as a classic of our literature.
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- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- James Baldwin
- First published
- 1963
- Pages
- 120
- Publisher
- Turtleback Books, Gallimard, The Dial Press
- Editions
- 54
- Language
- French, German, Polish, English
- ISBN
- 9783423281812
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“I HAVE BEGUN this letter five times and torn it up five times.”
James Arthur Baldwin was an American novelist, writer, playwright, poet, essayist and civil rights activist. Most of Baldwin's work deals with racial and sexual issues in the mid-20th century in the United States. His novels are notable for the personal way in which they explore questions of identity as well as the way in which they mine complex social and psychological pressures related to being black and homosexual well before the social, cultural or political equality of these groups was improved.[1] Source and more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Baldwin_%28writer%29#Bibliography
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