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This collection of comparative critical and theoretical essays examines James Baldwin and Toni Morrison's reciprocal literary relationship. By reading these authors side-by-side, this collection forges new avenues of discovery and interpretation related to their representations of African American and American literature and cultural experience.
The Fire Next Time (1963) is a pivotal work in James Baldwin’s career. It consists of two essays: “My Dungeon Shook: A Letter to my Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Emancipation,” originally published in Progressive, and “Down at the Cross: Letter from a Region in My Mind,” a lengthy, twenty-thousand-word essay that first appeared in The New Yorker.
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James Baldwin and Toni Morrison: Comparative Critical and Theoretical Essays Lovalerie King, Lynn Orilla Scott This collection of comparative critical and theoretical essays examines the reciprocal literary relationship between James Baldwin and Toni Morrison on topics ranging from their use of jazz and the blues, to their critiques of whiteness and their brilliant analyses of America's.
This collection of comparative critical and theoretical essays examines the reciprocal literary relationship between James Baldwin and Toni Morrison on topics ranging from their use of jazz and the blues, to their critiques of whiteness and their brilliant analyses of America's racial politics.
Introduction. James Baldwin in this classic story writes about 2 brothers growing up in a black ghetto called Harlem in New York. These two brothers are from the African-American race and the story was written during the 1950s, a time when the black people were actually enforced to live in a world of discrimination, prejudice, suppression, and poverty.
The nine original essays in Black Orpheus examines the Orphic theme in the fiction of such African American writers as Jean Toomer, Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, James Baldwin, Nathaniel Mackey, Sherley Anne Williams, Ann Petry, Ntozake Shange, Alice Walker, Gayl Jones, and Toni Morrison.