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:
Walk with the Wind
Justin A. Joyce
Feature Essay:
“Indisputably Available”: The Texture—Gendered, Sexual, Violent—of James Baldwin’s Southern Silences
Ed Pavlic
“Finding Work for The Devil” Special Section on Baldwin and Film
curated by Robert Jackson
Introduction: James Baldwin and Film Beyond the American Century
Robert Jackson
The Disorder of Life: James Baldwin on My Shoulder, Part Two
Karen Thorsen
The Devil Finds Work: A Hollywood Love Story (as Written by James Baldwin)
D. Quentin Miller
Another Cinema: James Baldwin’s Search for a New Film Form
Hayley O’Malley
Everybody’s Protest Cinema: Baldwin, Racial Melancholy, and the Black Middle Ground
Peter Lurie
Graduate Student Essay Award Winner:
“In the Name of Love”: Black Queer Feminism and the Sexual Politics of Another Country
Matty Hemming
Dispatches:
James Baldwin in the Fire This Time: A July 2020 Conversation with Bill V. Mullen, the author of James Baldwin: Living in Fire (2019)
William Maxwell and Bill Mullen
How Long Blues: An Interview with Jim Campbell
Douglas Field and Justin A. Joyce
White Lies Matter: Begin Again, a Review Essay
Herb Boyd
Creative Non-Fiction
The Fire Inside
Aleksander Motturi, Translated by Kira Josefsson
Baldwin’s Perfect Storm
Maureen Kelleher
Cheryl Wall, In Memoriam
Edited by Cora Kaplan
Bibliographic Essay:
Trends in Baldwin Criticism, 2017–19
Terrance Dean
