The Resource All those strangers : the art and lives of James Baldwin, Douglas Field
All those strangers : the art and lives of James Baldwin, Douglas Field
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- Summary
- 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 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 his 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. -- from dust jacket
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- x, 220 pages, 10 pages of unnumbered plates
- Contents
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- Introduction
- Baldwin's life on the left: from New York
- Intellectual to disturber of the peace
- Radical Baldwin and the FBI: from the rights movement to black power
- James Baldwin's religion: sex, love and blues
- "I am a stranger everywhere": travel and transnational tensions in Baldwin's work
- Afterword
- Isbn
- 9780199384150
- Label
- All those strangers : the art and lives of James Baldwin
- Title
- All those strangers
- Title remainder
- the art and lives of James Baldwin
- Statement of responsibility
- Douglas Field
- Subject
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- Baldwin, James, 1924-1987 -- Political and social views
- History
- Litteratur och politik -- historia
- Political and social views
- Politics and literature
- Baldwin, James
- Politik
- Politiska och sociala åsikter
- United States
- Zeithintergrund
- Politics and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Baldwin, James, 1924-1987
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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 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 his 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. -- from dust jacket
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1974-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Field, Douglas
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- plates
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PS3552.A45
- LC item number
- Z653 2015
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Baldwin, James
- Baldwin, James
- Baldwin, James
- Politics and literature
- Political and social views
- Politics and literature
- United States
- Politiska och sociala åsikter
- Litteratur och politik
- Politik
- Zeithintergrund
- Label
- All those strangers : the art and lives of James Baldwin, Douglas Field
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-211) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction -- Baldwin's life on the left: from New York -- Intellectual to disturber of the peace -- Radical Baldwin and the FBI: from the rights movement to black power -- James Baldwin's religion: sex, love and blues -- "I am a stranger everywhere": travel and transnational tensions in Baldwin's work -- Afterword
- Control code
- 893668846
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- x, 220 pages, 10 pages of unnumbered plates
- Isbn
- 9780199384150
- Lccn
- 2014037215
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Other control number
- 40025044322
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)893668846
- Label
- All those strangers : the art and lives of James Baldwin, Douglas Field
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-211) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Introduction -- Baldwin's life on the left: from New York -- Intellectual to disturber of the peace -- Radical Baldwin and the FBI: from the rights movement to black power -- James Baldwin's religion: sex, love and blues -- "I am a stranger everywhere": travel and transnational tensions in Baldwin's work -- Afterword
- Control code
- 893668846
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- x, 220 pages, 10 pages of unnumbered plates
- Isbn
- 9780199384150
- Lccn
- 2014037215
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Other control number
- 40025044322
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)893668846
Subject
- Baldwin, James, 1924-1987 -- Political and social views
- History
- Litteratur och politik -- historia
- Political and social views
- Politics and literature
- Baldwin, James
- Politik
- Politiska och sociala åsikter
- United States
- Zeithintergrund
- Politics and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Baldwin, James, 1924-1987
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