By James Baldwin
If Beale Street Could Talk (Deluxe Edition) by
Like the blues -- sweet, sad, and full of truth -- this masterful work of fiction rocks us with powerful emotions. In it are anger and pain, but above all, love -- the affirmative love of a woman for her man, the sustaining love of the black family. Fonny, a talented young artist, finds himself unjustly arrested and locked in New York's infamous Tombs. But his girlfriend, Tish, is determined to free him, and to have his baby, in this starkly realistic tale... a powerful indictment of American concepts of justice and punishment in our time.
Call Number: PS 3552.A45 I4 2024ISBN: 9780593688984Publication Date: 2024-06-18
If Beale Street Could Talk (audiobook) by ISBN: 9781504680783Publication Date: 2016Audiobook available via Overdrive.
Blues for Mister Charlie by
An award-winning play from one of America's most brilliant writers about a murder in a small Southern town, loosely based on the 1955 killing of Emmett Till.
Call Number: PS 3552 .A45 B5ISBN: 9780679761785Publication Date: 1995-04-25
The Devil Finds Work by
From "the best essayist in this country" (The New York Times Book Review) comes an incisive book-length essay about racism in American movies that challenges the underlying assumptions in many of the films that have shaped our consciousness.
Call Number: PS 3552 .A45 Z515ISBN: 9780307275950Publication Date: 2011-09-13
The Evidence of Things Not Seen by
In his searing and moving essay, James Baldwin explores the Atlanta child murders that took place over a period of twenty-two months in 1979 and 1980.
Call Number: HV 6534 .A7 B35 1995ISBN: 0805039392Publication Date: 1995-04-15
The Fire Next Time by
A stirring, intimate reflection on the nature of race and American nationhood that has inspired generations of writers and thinkers, first published in 1963, the same year as the March on Washington.
Call Number: E 185.61 .B195 1995ISBN: 0679601511Publication Date: 2021-07-06
Giovanni's Room by
From one of the most brilliant and provocative literary figures of the past century comes a groundbreaking novel set among the bohemian bars and nightclubs of 1950s Paris, about love and the fear of love--"a book that belongs in the top rank of fiction" (The Atlantic).
Call Number: PS 3552.A45 G5 2013ISBN: 9780345806567Publication Date: 2013-09-12
Go Tell It on the Mountain by
One of the most brilliant and provocative American writers of the twentieth century chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's spiritual, sexual, and moral struggle of self-invention in this "truly extraordinary" novel (Chicago Sun-Times).
Call Number: PS 3552.A45 G62ISBN: 9780375701870Publication Date: 2013-09-12
James Baldwin: Collected Essays by
James Baldwin was a uniquely prophetic voice in American letters. His brilliant and provocative essays made him the literary voice of the Civil Rights Era, and they continue to speak with powerful urgency to us today, whether in the swirling debate over the Black Lives Matter movement or in the words of Raoul Peck's documentary 'I Am Not Your Negro.' Edited by Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, the Library of America's Collected Essays is the most comprehensive gathering of Baldwin's nonfiction ever published.
Call Number: PS 3552 .A45 A16 1998ISBN: 9781883011529Publication Date: 1998-02-01
James Baldwin: Early Novels and Stories by
Here, in a Library of America volume edited by Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, is the fiction that established James Baldwin's reputation as a writer who fused unblinking realism and rare verbal eloquence.
Call Number: PS 3552 .A45 A6 1998ISBN: 1883011515Publication Date: 1998-02-01
Just Above My Head by
James Baldwin's final novel is "the work of a born storyteller at the height of his powers" (The New York Times Book Review). "Not everything is lost. Responsibility cannot be lost, it can only be abdicated. If one refuses abdication, one begins again." The stark grief of a brother mourning a brother opens this stunning, unforgettable novel.
Call Number: PS 3552 .A45 J8 2000ISBN: 0385334567Publication Date: 2000-06-13
Nobody Knows My Name by
From one of the most brilliant writers and thinkers of the twentieth century comes a collection of "passionate, probing, controversial" essays (The Atlantic) on topics ranging from race relations in the United States to the role of the writer in society.
Call Number: E185.61.B197ISBN: 9780679744733Publication Date: 1992-12-01
No Name in the Street by
From one of the most important American writers of the twentieth century--an extraordinary history of the turbulent sixties and early seventies that powerfully speaks to contemporary conversations around racism.
Call Number: E 185.615 .B28 1972ISBN: 9780307275929Publication Date: 2007-01-09
Notes of a Native Son by
In an age of Black Lives Matter, James Baldwin's essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and African Americans abroad are as powerful today as when they were first written.
Call Number: E 185.61 .B2 1955ISBN: 9780807006238Publication Date: 2012-11-20
Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone by
A major work of American literature from a major American writer that powerfully portrays the anguish of being Black in a society that at times seems poised on the brink of total racial war.
Call Number: PS 3552 .A45 T4 1998ISBN: 0375701893Publication Date: 1998-02-17
About James Baldwin
James Baldwin by
"The most revealing and subjectively penetrating assessment of Baldwin's life yet published." --The New York Times Book Review.
Call Number: PS 3552.A45 Z77 2015ISBN: 9781628724387Publication Date: 2015-02-24
James Baldwin by
"This fine collection of essays represents an important contribution to the rediscovery of Baldwin's stature as essayist, novelist, black prophetic political voice, and witness to the Civil Rights era.
Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780472071524Publication Date: 2011-10-05
Baldwin's Harlem by
Packed with telling anecdotes, Baldwin's Harlem illuminates the writer's diverse views and impressions of the community that would remain a consistent presence in virtually all of his writing.
Call Number: PS 355.A45 Z75 2008ISBN: 9780743293075Publication Date: 2008-01-08
James Baldwin and Toni Morrison: Comparative Critical and Theoretical Essays by
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.
Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780230601383Publication Date: 2006-01-01
James Baldwin and the Heavenly City by
Behind James Baldwin's uncanny ability to evoke a nation's crisis and potential hope lies his use of religious language to describe social and sexual transformation. The first study of its kind, James Baldwin and the Heavenly City shows that Baldwin's novels use biblical ideas in partly but not fully secularized ways to express the possible human attainment of a new life embodying a real but undefinable holiness.
Call Number: eBookISBN: 1609175700Publication Date: 2018-08-01
Talking at the Gates by
James Campbell knew Baldwin for ten years before Baldwin's death. For this book, he interviewed many of Baldwin's friends, and examined several hundred pages of correspondence.
Call Number: PS 3552.A45 Z63 2002ISBN: 9780520231306Publication Date: 2002-01-29
All Those Strangers: The Art and Lives of James Baldwin by
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."
Call Number: eBookISBN: 0199384177Publication Date: 2015-05-01
Understanding James Baldwin by
An analysis of the ground-breaking author's vision and thematic concerns The Harlem-born son of a storefront preacher, James Baldwin died almost thirty years ago, but his spirit lives on in the eloquent and still-relevant musings of his novels, short stories, essays, and poems.
Call Number: eBookISBN: 1611179653Publication Date: 2019-04-17
Who Can Afford to Improvise? by
More than a quarter-century after his death, James Baldwin remains an unparalleled figure in American literature and African American cultural politics. In Who Can Afford to Improvise? Ed Pavlic offers an unconventional, lyrical, and accessible meditation on the life, writings, and legacy of James Baldwin and their relationship to the lyric tradition in black music, from gospel and blues to jazz and R&B.
Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780823276837Publication Date: 2017-04-03
A Political Companion to James Baldwin by
This volume not only considers Baldwin's works within their own historical context, but also applies the author's insights to recent events such as the Obama presidency and the Black Lives Matter movement, emphasizing his faith in the connections between the past and present. These incisive essays will encourage a new reading of Baldwin that celebrates his significant contributions to political and democratic theory.
Call Number: eBookISBN: 0813169933Publication Date: 2017-11-15
Salvific Manhood: James Baldwin's Novelization of Male Intimacy by
Salvific Manhood foregrounds the radical power of male intimacy and vulnerability in surveying each of James Baldwin's six novels. Asserting that manhood and masculinity hold the potential for both tragedy and salvation, Ernest L. Gibson III highlights the complex and difficult emotional choices Baldwin's men must make within their varied lives, relationships, and experiences
Call Number: eBookISBN: 1496217934Publication Date: 2019-10-01
