All Those Strangers: The Art and Lives of James Baldwin Showing how external forces molded Baldwin's personal, political, and psychological development, Douglas Field breaks through the established critic.Adored by many, appalling to some, baffling still
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| Title | : | All Those Strangers: The Art and Lives of James Baldwin |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.60 (866 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0199384150 |
| Format Type | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 248 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-07-01 |
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Editorial : "One of the more valuable recent entries on Baldwin is Douglas Field's All Those Strangers, an idiosyncratic biography that focuses on three (somewhat) neglected fields of Baldwin study Field emphasizes the paradoxical nature of Baldwin's various identities. As Field examines in turn each of these strangers, he creates a portrait of a writer of 'outright contradictions' who sought truth at the expense of ideological purity." --The New York Review of Books"A compellingly unorthodox biography that sits somewhere between literary criticism and memoir Assessing his life and work in the context of the twentieth century's turbulent political landscape, Field provides a persuasive, absorbing account of Baldwin's life" --Times LiterarySupplement"All Those Strangers traverses the many paths of James Baldwin's journeys, from his political development with the New York left, through his transatlantic exiles and his conflicts with the FBI and Black Nat
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 black or queer writer? 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 the 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 critic
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