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Dark Days (Paperback)
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'So the club rose, the blood came down, and his bitterness and his
anguish and his guilt were compounded' Drawing on Baldwin's own
experiences of prejudice in an America violently divided by race,
these searing essays - Dark Days, The Price of the Ticket and The
White Man's Guilt - blend the intensely personal with the political
to envisage a better world. Penguin Modern: fifty new books
celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern
Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its
contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from
Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and
George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring;
poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking
us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground
scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.
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Nothing Personal (Hardcover)
James Baldwin; Foreword by Imani Perry; Afterword by Eddie S. Glaude Jr
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The inspiration for the new film from Oscar award-winning director
Barry Jenkins 'Achingly beautiful' Guardian Harlem, the black soul
of New York City, in the era of Aretha Franklin and Ray Charles.
The narrator of Baldwin's novel is Tish nineteen, and pregnant. Her
lover Fonny, father of her child, is in jail accused of rape.
Flashbacks from their love affair are woven into the compelling
struggle of two families to win justice for Fonny. To this love
story James Baldwin brings a spare and impassioned intensity,
charging it with universal resonance and power. 'If Beale Street
Could Talk affirms not only love between a man and a woman, but
love of a type that is dealt with only rarely in contemporary
fiction - that between members of a family' Joyce Carol Oates
"Mountain," Baldwin said, "is the book I had to write if I was ever
going to write anything else." Go Tell It On The Mountain, first
published in 1953, is Baldwin's first major work, a novel that has
established itself as an American classic. 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 storefront Pentecostal church in
Harlem one Saturday in March of 1935. Baldwin's rendering of his
protagonist's spiritual, sexual, and moral struggle of
self-invention opened new possibilities in the American language
and in the way Americans understand themselves.
Considered an 'audacious' second novel, Giovanni's Room is set in the 1950s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence. This now-classic story of a fated love triangle explores, with uncompromising clarity, the conflicts between desire, conventional morality and sexual identity.
"Nothing but the darkness, and all around them destruction, and before them nothing but the fire--a bastard people, far from God, singing and crying in the wilderness!" First published in 1953, Baldwin's first novel is a short but intense, semi-autobiographical exploration of the troubled life of the Grimes family in Harlem during the Depression.
Set in the 1950s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and
violence, a young man finds himself caught between desire and
conventional morality. With a sharp, probing imagination, James
Baldwin's now-classic narrative delves into the mystery of loving
and creates a moving, highly controversial story of death and
passion that reveals the unspoken complexities of the human heart.
'The story of the negro in America is the story of America ... it
is not a very pretty story' James Baldwin's breakthrough essay
collection made him the voice of his generation. Ranging over
Harlem in the 1940s, movies, novels, his preacher father and his
experiences of Paris, they capture the complexity of black life at
the dawn of the civil rights movement with effervescent wit and
prophetic wisdom. 'A classic ... In a divided America, James
Baldwin's fiery critiques reverberate anew' Washington Post 'Edgy
and provocative, entertainingly satirical' Robert McCrum, Guardian
'Cemented his reputation as a cultural seer ... Notes of a Native
Son endures as his defining work, and his greatest' Time
The stark grief of a brother mourning a brother opens this novel with a stunning, unforgettable experience. Here, in a monumental saga of love and rage, Baldwin goes back to Harlem, to the church of his groundbreaking novel Go Tell It on the Mountain, to the homosexual passion of Giovanni's Room, and to the political fire that enflames his nonfiction work. Here, too, the story of gospel singer Arthur Hall and his family becomes both a journey into another country of the soul and senses--and a living contemporary history of black struggle in this land.
Published in 1962, this is an emotionally intense novel of love, hatred, race and liberal America in the 1960s. Set in Greenwhich Village, Harlem and France, Another Country tells the story of the suicide of jazz-musician Rufus Scott and the friends who search for an understanding of his life and death, discovering uncomfortable truths about themselves along the way.
Since it was first published, this famous study of the Black Problem in America has become a classic. Powerful, haunting and prophetic, it sounds a clarion warning to the world.
James Baldwin was a uniquely prophetic voice in American letters.
His brilliant and provocative essays made him the literary voice of
the Civil Rights Era, and they continue to speak with powerful
urgency to us today, whether in the swirling debate over the Black
Lives Matter movement or in the words of Raoul Peck's documentary
"I Am Not Your Negro." Edited by Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, the
Library of America's Collected Essays is the most comprehensive
gathering of Baldwin's nonfiction ever published. With burning
passion and jabbing, epigrammatic wit, Baldwin fearlessly
articulated issues of race and democracy and American identity in
such famous essays as "The Harlem Ghetto," "Everybody's Protest
Novel," "Many Thousands Gone," and "Stranger in the Village." Here
are the complete texts of his early landmark collections, Notes of
a Native Son (1955) and Nobody Knows My Name (1961), which
established him as an essential intellectual voice of his time,
fusing in unique fashion the personal, the literary, and the
political. "One writes," he stated, "out of one thing only--one's
own experience. Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces
from this experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it can
possibly give." With singular eloquence and unblinking sharpness of
observation he lived up to his credo: "I want to be an honest man
and a good writer." The classic The Fire Next Time (1963), perhaps
the most influential of his writings, is his most penetrating
analysis of America's racial divide and an impassioned call to "end
the racial nightmare...and change the history of the world." The
later volumes No Name in the Street (1972) and The Devil Finds Work
(1976) chart his continuing response to the social and political
turbulence of his era and include his remarkable works of film
criticism. A further 36 essays--nine of them previously
uncollected--include some of Baldwin's earliest published writings,
as well as revealing later insights into the language of
Shakespeare, the poetry of Langston Hughes, and the music of Earl
Hines. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural
organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary
heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's
best and most significant writing. The Library of America series
includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that
average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings,
and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that
will last for centuries.
In this tender, impassioned fourth novel, James Baldwin created one
of his most striking characters: a man struggling to become
himself. 'Everyone wishes to be loved, but in the event, nearly no
one can bear it' At the height of his theatrical career, the actor
Leo Proudhammer is nearly felled by a heart attack. As he hovers
between life and death, we see the choices that have made him
enviably famous and terrifyingly vulnerable. For between Leo's
childhood on the streets of Harlem and his arrival into the world
of the theatre lies a wilderness of desire and loss, shame and
rage. And everywhere there is the anguish of being black in a
society that seems poised on the brink of racial war. In this
tender, angry 1968 novel, James Baldwin created one of his most
striking characters: a man struggling to become himself. 'The
emotion surrounding family attachment... is deeply felt and is one
reasons he continues to be read with such intensity' Colm Toibin
A collection of awe-inspiring stories from Finnish mythology, this
treasury was assembled by educator James Baldwin, who specialized
in adapting ancient narratives into captivating prose. Drawn from
the oral traditions of the Finnish national epic, the Kalevala,
these 38 entrancing tales are appropriate for all ages. 4
illustrations by N. C. Wyeth.
Baldwin's personal reflections on movies gathered here in a
book-length essay are also a probing appraisal of American racial
politics. Offering an incisive look at racism in American movies
and a vision of America's self-delusions and deceptions, Baldwin
challenges the underlying assumptions in such films as" In the Heat
of the Night," "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner," and "The Exorcist."
Here are our loves and hates, biases and cruelties, fears and
ignorance reflected by the films that have entertained us and
shaped our consciousness. And here too is the stunning prose of a
writer whose passion never diminished his struggle for equality,
justice, and social change.
A new edition of the book many have called James Baldwin's most
influential work
Written during the 1940s and early 1950s, when Baldwin was only in
his twenties, the essays collected in "Notes of a Native Son
"capture a view of black life and black thought at the dawn of the
civil rights movement and as the movement slowly gained strength
through the words of one of the most captivating essayists and
foremost intellectuals of that era. Writing as an artist, activist,
and social critic, Baldwin probes the complex condition of being
black in America. With a keen eye, he examines everything from the
significance of the protest novel to the motives and circumstances
of the many black expatriates of the time, from his home in "The
Harlem Ghetto" to a sobering "Journey to Atlanta."
"Notes of a Native Son" inaugurated Baldwin as one of the leading
interpreters of the dramatic social changes erupting in the United
States in the twentieth century, and many of his observations have
proven almost prophetic. His criticism on topics such as the
paternalism of white progressives or on his own friend Richard
Wright's work is pointed and unabashed. He was also one of the few
writing on race at the time who addressed the issue with a powerful
mixture of outrage at the gross physical and political violence
against black citizens and measured understanding of their
oppressors, which helped awaken a white audience to the injustices
under their noses. Naturally, this combination of brazen criticism
and unconventional empathy for white readers won Baldwin as much
condemnation as praise.
"Notes" is the book that established Baldwin's voice as a social
critic, and it remains one of his most admired works. The essays
collected here create a cohesive sketch of black America and reveal
an intimate portrait of Baldwin's own search for identity as an
artist, as a black man, and as an American.
Richard Wright's Native Son, Hollywood's Carmen Jones, boyhood in
Harlem, the death of his father, recovery and self-discovery as a
black American in Paris - these are some of the themes in this
collection of James Baldwin's early essays.
Recently chosen by "Essence "magazine, this beloved modern
classic tells the poignant story of a spirited young woman's coming
of age in -Depression-era Harlem. While 12-year-old Francie
Coffin's world and family threaten to fall apart, this remarkable
young heroine must call upon her own wit and endurance to survive
amidst the treacheries of racism and sexism, poverty and violence.
"The novel's greatest achievement lies in the strong sense of black
life that it conveys: the vitality and force behind the despair . .
. a most -important novel."--"New York Times Book Review"
The New York Times bestseller based on the Oscar nominated
documentary film In June 1979, the writer and civil rights activist
James Baldwin embarked on a project to tell the story of America
through the lives of three of his murdered friends: Medgar Evers,
Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. He died before it could be
completed. In his documentary film, I Am Not Your Negro, Raoul Peck
imagines the book Baldwin never wrote, using his original words to
create a radical, powerful and poetic work on race in the United
States - then, and today. 'Thrilling . . . A portrait of one man's
confrontation with a country that, murder by murder, as he once put
it, "devastated my universe"' The New York Times 'Baldwin's voice
speaks even more powerfully today . . . the prose-poet of our
injustice and inhumanity . . . The times have caught up with his
scalding eloquence' Variety 'A cinematic seance . . . One of the
best movies about the civil rights era ever made' Guardian 'I Am
Not Your Negro turns James Baldwin into a prophet' Rolling Stone
All of the published poetry of James Baldwin, including six
significant poems previously only available in a limited edition
During his lifetime (1924-1987), James Baldwin authored seven
novels, as well as several plays and essay collections, which were
published to wide-spread praise. These books, among them "Notes of
a Native Son," " The Fire Next Time," "Giovanni's Room," and "Go
Tell It on the Mountain," ""brought him well-deserved acclaim as a
public intellectual and admiration as a writer. However, Baldwin's
earliest writing was in poetic form, and Baldwin considered himself
a poet throughout his lifetime. Nonetheless, his single book of
poetry, "Jimmy's Blues," never achieved the popularity of his
novels and nonfiction, and is the one and only book to fall out of
print.
This new collection presents James Baldwin the poet, including all
nineteen poems from "Jimmy's Blues," as well as all the poems from
a limited-edition volume called "Gypsy," of which only 325 copies
were ever printed and which was in production at the time of his
death. Known for his relentless honesty and startlingly prophetic
insights on issues of race, gender, class, and poverty, Baldwin is
just as enlightening and bold in his poetry as in his famous novels
and essays. The poems range from the extended dramatic narratives
of "Staggerlee wonders" and "Gypsy" to the lyrical beauty of "Some
days," which has been set to music and interpreted by such
acclaimed artists as Audra McDonald. Nikky Finney's introductory
essay reveals the importance, relevance, and rich rewards of these
little-known works. Baldwin's many devotees will find much to
celebrate in these pages.
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