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.

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Author:   Douglas Field ,  Justin Joyce ,  Dwight McBride
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
Imprint:   Manchester University Press
ISBN:  

9781526176158

ISBN 10:   1526176157
Pages:   216
Publication Date:   26 September 2023
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Introduction Same Old Piano, Playing the Blues Justin A. Joyce Feature Essay “This Loaded Present”: Selma, 1963 Davis W. Houck Essays On the Fugitive Radicalism of Jimmy’s Blues Marta Werbanowska The Architecture of Love in the Poetic Thinking of James Baldwin and Jericho Brown Joanna Makowska Graduate Student Essay Award Winner “Love Is the Key”: James Baldwin’s Poethics of Love Emanuela Maltese Dispatches Jimmy’s Jubilee: A Review Herb Boyd “A Very Dangerous Effort”: James Baldwin’s Encounter with the BBC in 1963 Robert J. Corber The View from the Riverbank: James Baldwin and The Evidence of Things Not Seen Holly Lowe Jones Moment of Truth in Atlanta: James Baldwin Remembered (1989) Walter Lowe Jr. Bibliographic essay From A Furious Passage (1966) to Living in Fire (2019): A Review of Biographies about James Baldwin William Henry Pruitt III Interview “You Know What’s Cool About James Baldwin, Man?”: An Interview with Cecil Brown Matt Sandler From the Field Composing James Baldwin’s Joyful Song Rashida K. Braggs with William Murray and Elijah Parks -- .

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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

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