James Baldwin Review: Volume 8

by Douglas Field (Editor), Justin Joyce (Editor), Dwight McBride (Editor)

Overview

James Baldwin Review (JBR) is an annual journal that brings together a wide array of peer-reviewed critical and creative work on the life, writings, and legacy of James Baldwin. In addition to these cutting-edge contributions, each issue contains a review of recent Baldwin scholarship and an award-winning graduate student essay. James Baldwin Review publishes essays that invigorate scholarship on James Baldwin; catalyze explorations of the literary, political, and cultural influence of Baldwin’s writing and political activism; and deepen our understanding and appreciation of this complex and luminary figure.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781526170057
Publisher:	Manchester University Press
Publication date:	09/27/2022
Pages:	248
Sales rank:	641,396
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.53(d)

About the Author

Douglas Field is Professor of Twentieth Century American Literature at the University of Manchester

Justin A. Joyce is Research Director at The New School, New York City

Dwight A. McBride is President of The New School, New York City

Table of Contents

Introduction:
Brothers or Fools
Justin A. Joyce

Feature Essay:
Nonviolence, Black Power, and “the citizens of Pompeii”: James Baldwin’s 1968
Ed Pavlic

Essays:
“A Kind of Joy”: Laughing and Grinning through Sonny’s Blues
James Nikopoulos
“Forging a New Language”: A New Spatiotemporal Logic in James Baldwin’s The Evidence of Things Not Seen
Özge Özbek Akiman
Tortuous Time: Undoing the Past in Jean Améry and James Baldwin
Joseph Weiss
Baldwin and the Role of the Citizen Artist
Monika Gehlawat

Graduate Student Essay Award Winner:
Reaching Toward the Reader: James Baldwin’s Voice in “Notes of a Native Son”
Beth Tillman

Dispatches:
“This Music Begins on the Auction Block”: Learning in the Twenty-First Century from James Baldwin on Music
Josh Friedberg
Making Experiences Our Own: A Review of The Amen Corner, 2021
Ijeoma N. Njaka
Baldwin Boxed In at Virginia State Symposium: A Review
Herb Boyd
Celia, James, and Me
Michael A.L. Broyles

Bibliographic Essay :
The Evidence of Things Translated: Circulating Baldwin in Contemporary Europe
Remo Verdickt

Interview:
They Came to See if I’m for Real: James Baldwin Interviewed by Hakim Jamal for LA Free Press (1968)
Ed Pavlic