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Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes Of A Native Son (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) Book

Paperback. Pub Date :1991-08-29 Pages: 208 Language: English Publisher: Penguin Classics These essays ... live and grow in the mind - James Campbell. Independent. Baldwins early essays have been described as an unequaled meditation on what it means to be black in America. This rich and stimulating collection contains Fifth Avenue. Uptown: a Letter from Harlem. polemical pieces on the tragedies inflicted by racial segregation and a poignant account of his first journey to the Old Country. the Southern states. Yet equally compelling are his Notes for a Hypothetical Novel and personal reflections on being American. on other major artists - Ingmar Bergman and Andre Gide. Norman Mailer and Richard Wright - and on the first great conference of African Writers and Artists in Paris.Read More

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  • Foyles

    'These essays ... live and grow in the mind' James Campbell, IndependentBeing 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

  • ASDA

    Contains essays that describe what it means to be black in America. This book describes the tragedies that are inflicted by racial segregation and presents a poignant account of the author's first journey to 'the Old Country' the Southern states.

  • Penguin

    'These essays... live and grow in the mind' - James Campbell, Independent Baldwin's early essays have been described as 'an unequalled meditation on what it means to be black in America.

  • Product Description

    'These essays...live and grow in the mind' - James Campbell, "Independent". Baldwin's early essays have been described as 'an unequaled meditation on what it means to be black in America'. This rich and stimulating collection contains "Fifth Avenue, Uptown: a Letter from Harlem", polemical pieces on the tragedies inflicted by racial segregation and a poignant account of his first journey to 'the Old Country', the Southern states. Yet equally compelling are his "Notes for a Hypothetical Novel" and personal reflections on being American, on other major artists - Ingmar Bergman and Andre Gide, Norman Mailer and Richard Wright - and on the first great conference of African Writers and Artists in Paris.

  • 0140184473
  • 9780140184471
  • James Baldwin
  • 29 August 1991
  • Penguin Classics
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 208
  • New Ed
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