TY - BOOK AU - Dickstein,Morris TI - James Baldwin T2 - Critical insights SN - 9781587657016 (alk. paper) AV - PS 3552 .A45 Z72355 2011 PY - 2011/// CY - Pasadena, Calif. PB - Salem Press KW - Baldwin, James, KW - African Americans in literature N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 438-439) and index; "Works by James Baldwin": p. 436-437; 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 ER -