Conversations With James Baldwin

Author : James Baldwin
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9780878053896
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conversations with James Baldwin written by James Baldwin and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1989 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book "collects interview and conversations which contribute substantially to an understanding and clarification of James Baldwin's personality and perspective, his interests and achievements. The collection also represents a kind of companion piece to the earlier dialogues, A Rap on Race with Margaret Mead and A Dialogue with Nikki Giovanni"--Introduction.

Author : James Campbell
Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520381688
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Talking at the Gates written by James Campbell and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intimate portrait of Baldwin's mythic life. James Baldwin was one of the most incisive and influential American writers of the twentieth century. Active in the civil rights movement and open about his homosexuality, Baldwin was celebrated for eloquent analyses of social unrest in his essays and for daring portrayals of sexuality and interracial relationships in his fiction. By the time of his death in 1987, both his fiction and nonfiction works had achieved the status of modern classics. James Campbell knew James Baldwin for the last ten years of Baldwin's life. For Talking at the Gates, Campbell interviewed many of Baldwin's friends and professional associates and examined several hundred pages of correspondence. Campbell was the first biographer to obtain access to the large file that the FBI and other agencies had compiled on the writer. Examining Baldwin's turbulent relationships with Norman Mailer, Richard Wright, Marlon Brando, Martin Luther King Jr., and others, this candid and original account portrays the life and work of a writer who held to the principle that "the unexamined life is not worth living." This new edition features a fresh introduction addressing recent developments in Baldwin’s reputation and his return to a position he occupied in the early 1960s, when Life magazine called him "the monarch of the current literary jungle." It also contains a previously unpublished interview with Norman Mailer about Baldwin, which Campbell conducted in 1987.

Author : James Baldwin
Publisher : Melville House
ISBN 13 : 161219401X
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book James Baldwin: The Last Interview written by James Baldwin and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2014-12-02 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Never before available, the unexpurgated last interview with James Baldwin “I was not born to be what someone said I was. I was not born to be defined by someone else, but by myself, and myself only.” When, in the fall of 1987, the poet Quincy Troupe traveled to the south of France to interview James Baldwin, Baldwin’s brother David told him to ask Baldwin about everything—Baldwin was critically ill and David knew that this might be the writer’s last chance to speak at length about his life and work. The result is one of the most eloquent and revelatory interviews of Baldwin’s career, a conversation that ranges widely over such topics as his childhood in Harlem, his close friendship with Miles Davis, his relationship with writers like Toni Morrison and Richard Wright, his years in France, and his ever-incisive thoughts on the history of race relations and the African-American experience. Also collected here are significant interviews from other moments in Baldwin’s life, including an in-depth interview conducted by Studs Terkel shortly after the publication of Nobody Knows My Name. These interviews showcase, above all, Baldwin’s fearlessness and integrity as a writer, thinker, and individual, as well as the profound struggles he faced along the way.

Author : James Baldwin
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0525566120
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book If Beale Street Could Talk (Movie Tie-In) written by James Baldwin and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning love story about a young Black woman whose life is torn apart when her lover is wrongly accused of a crime—"a moving, painful story, so vividly human and so obviously based on reality that it strikes us as timeless" (The New York Times Book Review). "One of the best books Baldwin has ever written—perhaps the best of all." —The Philadelphia Inquirer Told through the eyes of Tish, a nineteen-year-old girl, in love with Fonny, a young sculptor who is the father of her child, Baldwin’s story mixes the sweet and the sad. Tish and Fonny have pledged to get married, but Fonny is falsely accused of a terrible crime and imprisoned. Their families set out to clear his name, and as they face an uncertain future, the young lovers experience a kaleidoscope of emotions—affection, despair, and hope. In a love story that evokes the blues, where passion and sadness are inevitably intertwined, Baldwin has created two characters so alive and profoundly realized that they are unforgettably ingrained in the American psyche.

Author : James Baldwin
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0804149666
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book No Name in the Street written by James Baldwin and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of the most important American writers of the twentieth century—an extraordinary history of the turbulent sixties and early seventies that powerfully speaks to contemporary conversations around racism. “It contains truth that cannot be denied.” —The Atlantic Monthly In this stunningly personal document, James Baldwin remembers in vivid details the Harlem childhood that shaped his early conciousness and the later events that scored his heart with pain—the murders of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, his sojourns in Europe and in Hollywood, and his retum to the American South to confront a violent America face-to-face.

Author : Ingmar Bergman
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781578062188
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ingmar Bergman written by Ingmar Bergman and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2007 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interviews with the famed director of Wild Strawberries, Scenes from a Marriage, The Seventh Seal, Saraband, and other films

Author : Bill Schwarz
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472027611
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book James Baldwin written by Bill Schwarz and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2011-10-05 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This fine collection of essays represents an important contribution to the rediscovery of Baldwin's stature as essayist, novelist, black prophetic political voice, and witness to the Civil Rights era. The title provides an excellent thematic focus. He understood both the necessity, and the impossibility, of being a black 'American' writer. He took these issues 'Beyond'---Paris, Istanbul, various parts of Africa---but this formative experience only returned him to the unresolved dilemmas. He was a fine novelist and a major prophetic political voice. He produced some of the most important essays of the twentieth century and addressed in depth the complexities of the black political movement. His relative invisibility almost lost us one of the most significant voices of his generation. This welcome 'revival' retrieves it. Close call." ---Stuart Hall, Professor Emeritus, Open University This interdisciplinary collection by leading writers in their fields brings together a discussion of the many facets of James Baldwin, both as a writer and as the prophetic conscience of a nation. The core of the volume addresses the shifting, complex relations between Baldwin as an American—“as American as any Texas GI” as he once wryly put it—and his life as an itinerant cosmopolitan. His ambivalent imaginings of America were always mediated by his conception of a world “beyond” America: a world he knew both from his travels and from his voracious reading. He was a man whose instincts were, at every turn, nurtured by America; but who at the same time developed a ferocious critique of American exceptionalism. In seeking to understand how, as an American, he could learn to live with difference—breaking the power of fundamentalisms of all stripes—he opened an urgent, timely debate that is still ours. His America was an idea fired by desire and grief in equal measure. As the authors assembled here argue, to read him now allows us to imagine new possibilities for the future. With contributions by Kevin Birmingham, Douglas Field, Kevin Gaines, Briallen Hopper, Quentin Miller, Vaughn Rasberry, Robert Reid-Pharr, George Shulman, Hortense Spillers, Colm Tóibín, Eleanor W. Traylor, Cheryl A. Wall, and Magdalena Zaborowska.

Author : James Baldwin
Publisher : Laurel
ISBN 13 : 9780440211761
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Rap on Race written by James Baldwin and published by Laurel. This book was released on 1992 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A black writer's emotional response to American racism is juxtaposed with the logical analyses of a social scientist

Author : Chester B. Himes
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9780878058181
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conversations with Chester Himes written by Chester B. Himes and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1995 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Himes was equally revealing in the many interviews he granted during his long and tumultuous career in America and France.

Author : Douglas Field
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199384150
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book All Those Strangers written by Douglas Field and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adored by many, appalling to some, baffling still to others, few authors defy any single critical narrative to the confounding extent that James Baldwin manages. Was he a black or queer writer? Was he a religious or secular writer? Was he a spokesman for the civil rights movement or a champion of the individual? His critics, as disparate as his readership, endlessly wrestle with paradoxes, not just in his work but also in the life of a man who described himself as "all those strangers called Jimmy Baldwin" and who declared that "all theories are suspect." Viewing Baldwin through a cultural-historical lens alongside a more traditional literary critical approach, All Those Strangers examines how his fiction and nonfiction shaped and responded to key political and cultural developments in the United States from the 1940s to the 1980s. Showing how external forces molded Baldwin's personal, political, and psychological development, Douglas Field breaks through the established critical difficulties caused by Baldwin's geographical, ideological, and artistic multiplicity by analyzing his life and work against the radically transformative politics of his time. The book explores under-researched areas in Baldwin's life and work, including his relationship to the Left, his FBI files, and the significance of Africa in his writing, while also contributing to wider discussions about postwar US culture. Field deftly navigates key twentieth-century themes-the Cold War, African American literary history, conflicts between spirituality and organized religion, and transnationalism-to bring a number of isolated subjects into dialogue with each other. By exploring the paradoxes in Baldwin's development as a writer, rather than trying to fix his life and work into a single framework, All Those Strangers contradicts the accepted critical paradigm that Baldwin's life and work are too ambiguous to make sense of. By studying him as an individual and an artist in flux, Field reveals the manifold ways in which Baldwin's work develops and coheres.