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Everybody's Protest Novel:Essays
[Hardback - 2024]
james baldwin
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Category: Sociology
Sub-category: Sociology
Additional Category: Literary Collections - Literary Criticism
Publisher: Beacon Press | ISBN: 9780807016947 | Pages: 104
Shipping Weight: .176 | Dimensions: 5.3 x .52 x 7.28 inches

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"I am completely indebted to Jimmy Baldwin’s prose. It liberated me as a writer."—Toni Morrison

This collectible edition celebrates James Baldwin’s 100th-year anniversary, probing the shortcomings of the American protest novel and the harmful representations of Black identity in film and fiction

Originally published in Notes of a Native Son, the essays "Autobiographical Notes," "Everybody's Protest Novel," "Many Thousands Gone," and "Carmen Jones: The Dark is Light Enough," showcase Baldwin's incisive voice as a social and literary critic.

“Autobiographical Notes” outlines Baldwin’s journey as a Black writer and his hesitant transition from fiction to nonfiction. In the following essays, Baldwin explores the Black experience through the lens of popular media, critiquing the ways in which Black characters—in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Richard Wright’s novel Native Son, and the 1950s film Carmen Jones—are reduced to digestible caricatures.

Everybody’s Protest Novel: Essays is the first of three special editions in the James Baldwin centennial anniversary series. Through this collection, Baldwin examines the facade of progress present in the novels of Black oppression. These essays showcase Baldwin’s profound ability to reveal the truth of the Black experience, exposing the failure of the protest novel, and the state of racial reckoning at the dawn of the Civil Rights Movement.

About the Author

Works of American writerJames Arthur Baldwin, outspoken critic of racism, includeGo Tell It on the Mountain(1953), a novel, andNotes of a Native Son(1955), a collection of essays.James Arthur Baldwin authored plays and poems in society.He came as the eldest of nine children; his stepfather served as a minister. At 14 years of age in 1938, Baldwin preached at the small fireside Pentecostal church in Harlem. From religion in the early 1940s, he transferred his faith to literature with the still evident impassioned cadences of black churches. From 1948, Baldwin made his home primarily in the south of France but often returned to the United States of America to lecture or to teach.In hisGiovanni's Room, a white American expatriate must come to terms with his homosexuality. In 1957, he began spending half of each year in city of New York.James Baldwin offered a vital literary voice during the era of civil rights activism in the 1950s and 1960s.He first partially autobiographically accounted his youth. His influentialNobody Knows My NameandThe Fire Next Timeinformed a large white audience.Another Countrytalks about gay sexual tensions among intellectuals of New York. The black community savaged his gay themes.Eldridge Cleaverof the Black Panthers stated the Baldwin displayed an "agonizing, total hatred of blacks." People producedBlues for Mister Charlie, play of Baldwin, in 1964.Going to Meet the ManandTell Me How Long the Train's Been Goneprovided powerful descriptions. He as an openly gay man increasingly in condemned discrimination against lesbian persons.From stomach cancer, Baldwin died in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France. People buried his body at the Ferncliff cemetery in Hartsdale near city of New York.

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