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.
Table of ContentsIntroduction: In medias res, A Moment of Silence - Justin A. Joyce
Essays
1 “Esther Weren’t No Harlot”: Rape and Marriage in Go Tell It on the Mountain - Porter Nenon
2 Errant Kinship, Traveling Song: James Baldwin’s Just Above My Head - Jenny M. James
3 “Something Unspeakable”: James Baldwin and the “Closeted-ness” of American Power - David C. Jones
4 James Baldwin, Lionel Trilling, American Studies, and the Freudian Tragic - Jay Garcia
5 Disturbing the Peace of “Two Not So Very Different” Countries: James Baldwin and Fritz Raddatz - Gianna Zocco
6 “Who’s the Nigger Now?”: Rhetoric and Identity in James Baldwin’s Revolution from Within Davis W. Houck
Graduate Student Essay Award
7 Time to Tell - Dennis Ray Knight Jr.
Dispatches
8 The Process of Writing a Book about Baldwin’s Self-Exile in Saint-Paul de Vence - Jules B. Farber
9 Queering I Am Not Your Negro: or Why We Need James Baldwin More Than Ever - Robert J. Corber
Multi-Media Feature
10 Remembering Sedat Pakay 1945–2016 - David Leeming and Magdalena J. Zaborowska
Bibliographic Essay
11 Trends in James Baldwin Criticism 2010–13 - D. Quentin Miller
Interview
12 “He Gave Me the Words”: An Interview with Raoul Peck - Leah Mirakhor
