Description
Book SynopsisJames 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.
Table of ContentsIntroduction: “Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition": At Home in the Life and Work of James Baldwin - Douglas Field
Essays
1. “So Sensual, So Languid, and So Private”: James Baldwin’s American South - Jeff Fallis
2. Kairotic Time, Recognition, and Freedom in James Baldwin’s Go Tell It on the Mountain - Robert Z. Birdwell
3. Sonic Living: Space and the Speculative in James Baldwin's "Sonny's Blues" - Maleda Belilgne
4. Black Meets Black: Encounters in America - Dagmawi Woubshet
5. “You have to get to where you are before you can see where you’ve been”: Searching for Black Queer Domesticity at Chez Baldwin - Magdalena J. Zaborowska
Graduate Student Essay Award
6. My Dear White Sister: Self-examining White Privilege and the Myth of America - Keely Shinners
Dispatches
7. There is No Texting at James Baldwin’s Table - Lindsey R. Swindall
8. Losing Real Life: James Baldwin and the Ethics of Trauma - Mikko Tuhkanen
Bibliographic Essay
9. Trends in Baldwin Criticism, 2013-2015 - Ernest Gibson
Interview
10. “I Live a Hope Despite My Knowing Better”: James Baldwin in Conversation with Fritz J. Raddatz (1978) - Gianna Zocco
