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:
Brothers or Fools
Justin A. Joyce
Feature Essay:
Nonviolence, Black Power, and “the citizens of Pompeii”: James Baldwin’s 1968
Ed Pavlic
Essays:
“A Kind of Joy”: Laughing and Grinning through Sonny’s Blues
James Nikopoulos
“Forging a New Language”: A New Spatiotemporal Logic in James Baldwin’s The Evidence of Things Not Seen
Özge Özbek Akiman
Tortuous Time: Undoing the Past in Jean Améry and James Baldwin
Joseph Weiss
Baldwin and the Role of the Citizen Artist
Monika Gehlawat
Graduate Student Essay Award Winner:
Reaching Toward the Reader: James Baldwin’s Voice in “Notes of a Native Son”
Beth Tillman
Dispatches:
“This Music Begins on the Auction Block”: Learning in the Twenty-First Century from James Baldwin on Music
Josh Friedberg
Making Experiences Our Own: A Review of The Amen Corner, 2021
Ijeoma N. Njaka
Baldwin Boxed In at Virginia State Symposium: A Review
Herb Boyd
Celia, James, and Me
Michael A.L. Broyles
Bibliographic Essay :
The Evidence of Things Translated: Circulating Baldwin in Contemporary Europe
Remo Verdickt
Interview:
They Came to See if I’m for Real: James Baldwin Interviewed by Hakim Jamal for LA Free Press (1968)
Ed Pavlic
