![]() ![]() Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1978. Like a Brother, Like a Lover: Male Homosexuality in the American Novel and Theatre from Herman Melville to James Baldwin. "James Baldwin's Vision of Otherness and Community." MELUS 10.2 (1983): 27-31. "James Baldwin." Contemporary Gay American Novelists: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. "James Baldwin and His Critics." Gay Community News (February 9, 1980): 11-12, 17. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1974. James Baldwin: A Collection of Critical Essays. Kenan, Randall and Sickels, James Baldwin (Gay & Lesbian Writers). Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1985. Black Women in the Fiction of James Baldwin. "Religious Alienation and 'Homosexual Consciousness' in City of Night and Go Tell It on the Mountain." College English 36 (November 1974): 369-380. "Liberalism, Libido, Liberation: Baldwin's Another Country." Genders 12 (Winter 1991): 1-21. "Love, Race and Sex in the Novels of James Baldwin." Mosaic 17.2 (1984): 175-188.Ĭohen, William A. New York: Viking, 1991.Ĭederstrom, Lorelei. Talking at the Gates: A Life of James Baldwin. New York: Chelsea House, 1986.Ĭampbell, James. "The Divided Mind of James Baldwin." Journal of American Studies 14 (1980): 325-342.īloom, Harold, ed. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1991.īigsby, C. Gaiety Transfigured: Gay Self-Representation in American Literature. London: Vision Press, 1980.īergman, David. The Homosexual as Hero in Contemporary Fiction. VIEW ENLARGED BALDWIN BRONZE MEMORIALĪdams, Stephen. He remains one of the most influential U.S. Nonetheless, as an openly gay man, he became increasingly outspoken in condemning discrimination against lesbian and gay people, offering a vital literary voice during the turbulent era of civil rights activism in the 1950s and '60s. Though he had toured the American South and spoke extensively about the Black Civil Rights Movement, Baldwin was not asked to play a visible role in the 1963 March on Washington because his homosexuality was considered a liability by its organizers. He would live as an expatriate in France for most of his later life. Disillusioned by American prejudice against blacks and homosexuals, Baldwin departed for France in 1948 where he soon became involved with the cultural radicalism of the Left Bank. In it he addressed the charge that homosexuality was “unnatural” by questioning how something “as old as mankind” itself could possibly be regarded as anything but natural. to deal openly with homosexuality a subject previously explored in his essay ‘Preservation of Innocence’ (1949). His book Giovanni’s Room (1956) was one of the first novels written in the U.S. ![]() ![]() His first novel Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953) framed an account of growing up in Harlem in a context characteristic of his writing – a concern for the rights of America’s oppressed and a compassionate search for human dignity amid the frustration and rage of blacks fighting for justice. At age 14, he became a Pentecostal preacher something that he said influenced his later writing. The preeminent African American intellectual of his era, James Baldwin wrote 17 books of prose, essays, plays, and poetry – works that had a profound influence on the development of a contemporary American identity. Love is a battle, love is a war love is a growing up.” ![]() “Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. ![]()
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