James Baldwin: Challenging Authors
✍ Scribed by A. Scott Henderson, P. L. Thomas (eds.)
- Publisher
- SensePublishers
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 223
- Series
- Critical Literacy Teaching Series
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Introduction....Pages 1-7
Conversion Calls for Confrontation....Pages 9-27
Why Theater, Mr. Baldwin?....Pages 29-39
Baldwin in South Africa....Pages 41-54
From James’ Portrait to Baldwin’s Room ....Pages 55-75
Another Country....Pages 77-89
Feeling in Radical Consciousness....Pages 91-105
James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time and the Jeremiad Tradition....Pages 107-120
James Baldwin....Pages 121-136
Uplift Versus Upheaval....Pages 137-148
The Agitating Power of Nonviolent Cool in “Going to Meet the Man”....Pages 149-163
James Baldwin VS. William F. Buckley, JR. for The Soul of America....Pages 165-179
James Baldwin’s Gospel of Postcategorical Love....Pages 181-196
“Fame is the Spur And—Ouch!”....Pages 197-206
“Digging Through the Ruins”....Pages 207-219
Back Matter....Pages 221-223
✦ Subjects
Education (general)
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