James Baldwin And The Short Story

Author : James Baldwin
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780804149754

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Going to Meet the Man by James Baldwin Pdf

A major collection of short stories by one of America’s most important writers—informed by the knowledge the wounds racism leaves in both its victims and its perpetrators. • “If Van Gogh was our 19th-century artist-saint, James Baldwin is our 20th-century one.” —Michael Ondaatje, Booker Prize-winner of The English Patient In this modern classic, "there's no way not to suffer. But you try all kinds of ways to keep from drowning in it." The men and women in these eight short fictions grasp this truth on an elemental level, and their stories detail the ingenious and often desperate ways in which they try to keep their head above water. It may be the heroin that a down-and-out jazz pianist uses to face the terror of pouring his life into an inanimate instrument. It may be the brittle piety of a father who can never forgive his son for his illegitimacy. Or it may be the screen of bigotry that a redneck deputy has raised to blunt the awful childhood memory of the day his parents took him to watch a black man being murdered by a gleeful mob. By turns haunting, heartbreaking, and horrifying, Going to Meet the Man is a major work by one of our most important writers.

Author : James Baldwin,George Kirby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3125765005

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SONNY S BLUES by James Baldwin,George Kirby Pdf

Author : James Baldwin
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 714 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-21
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780807006573

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The Price of the Ticket by James Baldwin Pdf

An essential compendium of James Baldwin’s most powerful nonfiction work, calling on us “to end the racial nightmare, and achieve our country.” Personal and prophetic, these essays uncover what it means to live in a racist American society with insights that feel as fresh today as they did over the 4 decades in which he composed them. Longtime Baldwin fans and especially those just discovering his genius will appreciate this essential collection of his great nonfiction writing, available for the first time in affordable paperback. Along with 46 additional pieces, it includes the full text of dozens of famous essays from such books as: • Notes of a Native Son • Nobody Knows My Name • The Fire Next Time • No Name in the Street • The Devil Finds Work This collection provides the perfect entrée into Baldwin’s prescient commentary on race, sexuality, and identity in an unjust American society.

Author : James Baldwin
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101974223

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Come Out the Wilderness by James Baldwin Pdf

A Vintage Shorts “Short Story Month” Selection James Baldwin’s commanding prose remains as pressing in its compassionate portrayal of marginalized figures today as it was during the peak of the Civil Rights Movement. In “Come Out the Wilderness,” an essential and tremendous classic of American literature, Baldwin unmasks the heartbreak of one African American woman’s spiritual, sexual, moral, and ultimately futile struggle for control of her future and her happiness in mid-century New York. An ebook short.

Author : James Baldwin
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101873809

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The Outing by James Baldwin Pdf

In James Baldwin’s classic short story, “The Outing,” from Going to Meet the Man, a Harlem church group escapes the city for a summer day-trip of prayer and, more importantly, romance. Every summer, the Harlem Mount of Olives Pentecostal Assembly gives an outing, around the Fourth of July. There is boating, testifying, and illicit steps towards young love. Delving deeply into the church community he would depict in Go Tell It On The Mountain, this is Baldwin at his most compassionate, investigating the sexual ambivalence and towering religion of a group of young children on their way up the Hudson. “The Outing” is the perfect introduction to an American master. An eBook short.

Author : James Baldwin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 147800004X

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Little Man, Little Man by James Baldwin Pdf

Now available for the first time in nearly 40 years. Baldwin's only children's book follows the day-to-day life of four-year-old TJ and his friends in their Harlem neighborhood as they encounter the social realities of being black in America in the 1970s. Full color.

Author : Marc Dudley
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611179651

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Understanding James Baldwin by Marc Dudley Pdf

An analysis of the ground-breaking author's vision and thematic concerns The Harlem-born son of a storefront preacher, James Baldwin died almost thirty years ago, but his spirit lives on in the eloquent and still-relevant musings of his novels, short stories, essays, and poems. What concerned him most—as a black man, as a gay man, as an American—were notions of isolation and disconnection at both the individual and communal level and a conviction that only in the transformative power of love could humanity find any hope of healing its spiritual and social wounds. In Understanding James Baldwin, Marc K. Dudley shows that a proper grasp of Baldwin's work begins with a grasp of the times in which he wrote. During a career spanning the civil rights movement and beyond, Baldwin stood at the heart of intellectual and political debate, writing about race, sexual identity, and gendered politics, while traveling the world to promote dialogue on those issues. In surveying the writer's life, Dudley traces the shift in Baldwin's aspirations from occupying the pulpit like his stepfather to becoming a writer amid the turmoil of sexual self-discovery and the harsh realities of American racism and homophobia. The book's analyses of key works in the Baldwin canon—among them, Go Tell It on the Mountain, Giovanni's Room, "Sonny's Blues," Another Country, The Fire Next Time, and The Devil Finds Work—demonstrate the consistency, contrary to some critics' claims, of Baldwin's vision and thematic concerns. As police violence against people of color, a resurgence in white supremacist rhetoric, and pushback against LGBTQ rights fill today's headlines, James Baldwin's powerful and often-angry words find a new resonance. From early on, Baldwin decried the damning potential of alienation and the persistent bigotry that feeds it. Yet, even as it sometimes wavered, his hope for both the individual and the nation remained intact. In the present historical moment, James Baldwin matters more than ever.

Author : James Baldwin
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780525566120

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If Beale Street Could Talk (Movie Tie-In) by James Baldwin Pdf

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 : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781250886729

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The Evidence of Things Not Seen by James Baldwin Pdf

Over twenty-two months in 1979 and 1981 nearly two dozen children were unspeakably murdered in Atlanta despite national attention and outcry; they were all Black. James Baldwin investigated these murders, the Black administration in Atlanta, and Wayne Williams, the Black man tried for the crimes. Because there was only evidence to convict Williams for the murders of two men, the children's cases were closed, offering no justice to the families or the country. Baldwin's incisive analysis implicates the failures of integration as the guilt party, arguing, "There could be no more devastating proof of this assault than the slaughter of the children." As Stacey Abrams writes in her foreword, "The humanity of black children, of black men and women, of black lives, has ever been a conundrum for America. Forty years on, Baldwin's writing reminds us that we have never resolved the core query: Do black lives matter? Unequivocally, the moral answer is yes, but James Baldwin refuses such rhetorical comfort." In this, his last book, by excavating American race relations Baldwin exposes the hard-to-face ingrained issues and demands that we all reckon with them.

Author : James Baldwin
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547251729

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Fifty Famous People: A Book of Short Stories by James Baldwin Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Fifty Famous People: A Book of Short Stories" by James Baldwin. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : James Baldwin
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4057664127990

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Fifty Famous People: A Book of Short Stories by James Baldwin Pdf

"Fifty Famous People: A Book of Short Stories" by James Baldwin. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author : Marcela Breton
Publisher : Plume Books
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015018827744

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Hot and Cool by Marcela Breton Pdf

Jazz--the music, the look, and the attitude--has fascinated people for most of this century. Hot and Cool takes readers deep into the world of "cool" people and "hot" music with contemporary short stories by some of the world's most celebrated writers exploring the jazz aesthetic.

Author : James Baldwin
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1991-08-29
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780141915968

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Nobody Knows My Name by James Baldwin Pdf

'These essays ... live and grow in the mind' James Campbell, Independent Being a writer, says James Baldwin in this searing collection of essays, requires 'every ounce of stamina he can summon to attempt to look on himself and the world as they are'. His seminal 1961 follow-up to Notes on a Native Son shows him responding to his times and exploring his role as an artist with biting precision and emotional power: from polemical pieces on racial segregation and a journey to 'the Old Country' of the Southern states, to reflections on figures such as Ingmar Bergman and André Gide, and on the first great conference of African writers and artists in Paris. 'Brilliant...accomplished...strong...vivid...honest...masterly' The New York Times 'A bright and alive book, full of grief, love and anger' Chicago Tribune

Author : James Baldwin
Publisher : Signet Book
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0451015592

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Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin Pdf

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.

Author : James Baldwin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 3836551039

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The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin Pdf

First published in 1963, James Baldwin's A Fire Next Time stabbed at the heart of America's so-called ldquo;Negro problemrdquo;. As remarkable for its masterful prose as it is for its uncompromising account of black experience in the United States, it is considered to this day one of the most articulate and influential expressions of 1960s race relations. The book consists of two essays, ldquo;My Dungeon Shook mdash; Letter to my Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of Emancipation,rdquo; and ldquo;Down At The Cross mdash; Letter from a Region of My Mind.rdquo; It weaves thematic threads of love, faith, and family into a candid assault on the hypocrisy of the so-say ldquo;land of the freerdquo;, insisting on the inequality implicit to American society. ldquo;You were born where you were born and faced the future that you facedrdquo;, Baldwin writes to his nephew, ldquo;because you were black and for no other reason.rdquo; His profound sense of injustice is matched by a robust belief in ldquo;monumental dignityrdquo;, in patience, empathy, and the possibility of transforming America into ldquo;what America must become.rdquo;