James Baldwin - Dickstein, Morris (Pasadena, Calif. : Salem Press, 2011)
On James Baldwin / Morris Dickstein -- Biography of James Baldwin / Barry Mann -- The Paris review perspective / Richard Beck for The Paris review -- James Baldwin in his time / Douglas Field -- Exiled in Paris: the beginnings / James Campbell -- "This web of lust and fury": Harriet Beecher Stowe, James Baldwin's nineteenth-century white mother / Horace A. Porter -- Faith in verse and fiction: James Baldwin's, Phillis Wheatley's, Octavia E. Butler's, and Tananarive Due's creation of a peaceful space / Mildred R. Mickle -- James Baldwin's critical reception / D. Quentin Miller -- Looking for Jimmy Baldwin: sex, privacy, and black nationalist fervor / Douglas Field -- The tale of two cities in James Baldwin's Go tell it on the mountain / Charles Scruggs -- The treacherous body: isolation, confession, and community in James Baldwin / Peter Kerry Powers -- Subversive anti-Stalinism: race and sexuality in the early essays of James Baldwin / Geraldine Murphy -- "Sonny's blues": James Baldwin's image of black community / John M. Reilly -- The queering of memory: nostalgia and desire in Baldwin's "Going to meet the man" / Tiffany Gilbert -- On James Baldwin's Another country / Lionel Trilling -- James Baldwin and the "man" / F. W. Dupee -- The committed writer: James Baldwin as dramatist / C. W. E. Bigsby -- If the street could talk: James Baldwin's search for love and understanding / Yoshinobu Hakutani -- Bearing the burden of the blues: If Beale Street could talk / Trudier Harris -- The fire last time / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- The magic of James Baldwin / Darryl Pinckney -- James Baldwin: the risks of love / Darryl Pinckney.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 438-439) and index.
"Works by James Baldwin": p. 436-437.
Keywords: Baldwin, James, -- 1924-1987 -- Criticism and interpretation; African Americans in literature