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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      May 2015
      April 2015
      ISBN:
      9781107337725
      9781107043039
      9781107618183
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CCO9781107337725
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.57kg, 274 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.39kg, 274 Pages
      • Collection:
      Cambridge Companions to Literature and Classics
      Subjects:
      Literature, Area Studies, American Literature, American Studies, English Literature: General Interest
      Series:
      Cambridge Companions to Literature
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    Collection:
    Cambridge Companions to Literature and Classics
    Subjects:
    Literature, Area Studies, American Literature, American Studies, English Literature: General Interest
    Series:
    Cambridge Companions to Literature
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    This Companion offers fresh insight into the art and politics of James Baldwin, one of the most important writers and provocative cultural critics of the twentieth century. Black, gay, and gifted, he was hailed as a 'spokesman for the race', although he personally, and controversially, eschewed titles and classifications of all kinds. Individual essays examine his classic novels and nonfiction as well as his work across lesser-examined domains: poetry, music, theatre, sermon, photo-text, children's literature, public media, comedy, and artistic collaboration. In doing so, The Cambridge Companion to James Baldwin captures the power and influence of his work during the civil rights era as well as his relevance in the 'post-race' transnational twenty-first century, when his prescient questioning of the boundaries of race, sex, love, leadership, and country assume new urgency.

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    ‘The Companion … addresses Baldwin's work in relation to his social and political contexts, as well as examining lesser-studied aspects of his oeuvre, including his collaborations, his poetry, and - best of all - his humour.’

    Rona Cran Source: The Times Literary Supplement

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