Description
Book SynopsisThe 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. The 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.
It is the aim of the James Baldwin Review to provide a vibrant and multidisciplinary forum for the international community of Baldwin scholars, students, and enthusiasts.
Trade ReviewIf the first volume of JBR is any indication, then the editors have indeed assembled a vibrant and lively collection of powerful scholarship that demonstrates the vitality of Baldwin’s ideas and the continuing resonance of his work today.
African American Intellectual History Society
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Table of ContentsIntroduction: Lorem Ipsum Paris – Justin A. Joyce, Douglas Field, and Dwight A. McBride
Essays
1 I’ve Got a Testimony: James Baldwin and the Broken Silences of Black Queer Men – McKinley E. Melton
2 “To Crush the Serpent”: James Baldwin, the Religious Right, and the Moral Minority – Joseph Vogel
3 Possessing History and American Innocence: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley, Jr., and the 1965 Cambridge Debate – Daniel Robert McClure
4 The Struggle of Integration: James Baldwin and Melanie Klein in the Context of Black Lives Matter – David W. McIvor
5 Watching Time: James Baldwin and Malcolm X – Mikko Tuhkanen
Graduate Student Essay Award
6 The Uses of Race and Religion: James Baldwin’s Pragmatist Politics in The Fire Next Time – Courtney Ferriter
Dispatches
7 James Baldwin: Biographical Dispatches on a Freedom Writer – Phillip Luke Sinitiere
8 Relatively Conscious: The Enduring Rage of Baldwin and the Education of a White Southern Baptist Queer –Jon-Marc McDonald
Multi-Media Feature
9 Jimmy’s Songs: Listening over James Baldwin’s Shoulder – Ed Pavlic
Bibliographic Essay
10 Trends in James Baldwin Criticism 2001–10 – Lynn Orilla Scott
Conference Review
11 The Public James Baldwin – Herb Boyd
