James Baldwin

Nobody Knows My Name

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Produktbeschreibung

Told with Baldwin's characteristically unflinching honesty, this collection of illuminating, deeply felt essays examines topics ranging from race relations in the United States to the role of the writer in society, and offers personal accounts of Richard Wright, Norman Mailer and other writers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House UK
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 1992
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 205mm x 131mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 270g
• ISBN-13: 9780679744733
• ISBN-10: 0679744738
• Artikelnr.: 22325920

Autorenporträt

James Baldwin

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
PART ONE:  Sitting in the House . . .
1.   The Discovery of What It Means to Be an American
2.   Princes and Powers
3.   Fifth Avenue, Uptown: a Letter from Harlem
4.   East River, Downtown:  Postscript to a Letter from Harlem
5.   A Fly in Buttermilk
6.   Nobody Knows My Name: a Letter from the South
7.   Faulkner and Desegregation
8.   In Search of a Majority
PART TWO:  . . . With Everything on My Mind
9.   Notes from a Hypothetical Novel
10. The Male Prison
11. The Northern Protestant
12. Alas, Poor Richard
i.  Eight Men
ii. The Exile
iii. Alas, Poor Richard
13.  The Black Boy Looks at the White Boy