Baldwin, James
Everybody's Protest Novel: Essays
- ISBN 13:
- 9780807016947
- author:
- Baldwin, James
- format:
- Hardback
- publisher:
- Beacon Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2024
- Pages:
- 104
- Dimensions:
- 18.3 x 12.7 x 1.5 centimetres (0
- Genre:
- Fiction & Literature, Literary Criticsm, American,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
James Baldwin's essays in this collection probe the shortcomings of the American protest novel and the harmful representations of Black identity in film and fiction. Celebrating his 100th-year anniversary, this edition explores how Black characters are often reduced to digestible caricatures in popular media.
Baldwin examines the façade of progress present in novels of Black oppression, revealing the truth of the Black experience through his incisive voice as a social and literary critic. This collection showcases Baldwin's profound ability to expose the failure of the protest novel and the state of racial reckoning at the dawn of the Civil Rights Movement.
Featuring essays from Notes of a Native Son, including "Autobiographical Notes," "Everybody's Protest Novel," "Many Thousands Gone," and "Carmen Jones: The Dark is Light Enough," this edition is the first in the James Baldwin centennial anniversary series.
Related Products
Related Products
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays
Chee, Alexander
The Victorian Art of Fiction: Nineteenth-century Essays on the Novel
Maitzen, Rohan
Everybody
Laing, Olivia
What If Everybody Said That? (What If Everybody?)
Javernick, Ellen
Protestant Reformation
Hillerbrand, Hans J