'Go back to where you started, or as far back as you can, examine
all of it, travel your road again and tell the truth about it. Sing
or shout or testify or keep it to yourself: but know whence you
came.' Originally published in 1953, Go Tell it on the Mountain was
James Baldwin's first major work, based in part on his own
childhood in Harlem. With lyrical precision, psychological
directness, resonating symbolic power and a rage that is at once
unrelenting and compassionate, Baldwin chronicles a
fourteen-year-old boy's discovery of the terms of his identity as
the stepson of the minister of a Pentecostal storefront church in
Harlem. Baldwin's rendering of his protagonist's spiritual, sexual
and moral struggle towards self-invention opened new possibilities
in the American language and in the way Americans understood
themselves.
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