- African Americans, Race relations, Social conditions, Civil rights
Since its original publication in 1955, this first nonfiction collection of essays by James Baldwin remains an American classic. His impassioned essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and African Americans abroad are as powerful today as when they were first written. “A straight-from-the-shoulder writer, writing about the troubled problems of this troubled earth with an illuminating intensity.” —Langston Hughes, The New York Times Book Review “Written with bitter clarity and uncommon grace.” —Time
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- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemplativerelentless
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- Author
- James Baldwin
- First published
- 1955
- Pages
- 175
- Publisher
- Joseph, Penguin Books, Limited, Blackstone Pub
- Editions
- 36
- Language
- English, French, urd
- ISBN
- 9781299562349
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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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