James Baldwin (1) (1924–1987)
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Sull'Autore
James Baldwin was born on August 2, 1924, in New York. Baldwin's father was a pastor who subjected his children to poverty, abuse, and religious fanaticism. As a result, many of Baldwin's recurring themes, such as alienation and rejection, are attributable to his upbringing. Living the life of a mostra altro starving artist, Baldwin went through numerous jobs, including dishwasher, office boy, factory worker, and waiter. In 1948, he moved to France, where much work originated. Baldwin published Go Tell It on the Mountain in 1953. A largely autobiographical work, it tells of the religious awakening of a fourteen-year-old. In addition to his childhood experiences, his experiences as a black man and a homosexual provided inspiration for such works as Giovanni's Room, Nobody Knows My Name, and Another Country. Baldwin holds a distinguished place in American history as one of the foremost writers of both black and gay literature. He was an active participant in the Civil Rights movement. Baldwin succumbed to cancer on December 1, 1987. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
Opere di James Baldwin
James Baldwin: Collected Essays, Notes of a Native Son, Nobody Knows My Name, The Fire Next Time, No Name in the… (1998) 1,013 copie
James Baldwin: Early Novels and Stories: Go Tell It on the Mountain / Giovanni’s Room / Another Country / Going to… (1998) — Autore — 561 copie
James Baldwin: Later Novels: Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone / If Beale Street Could Talk / Just Above My… (2015) 153 copie
James Baldwin: The Last Interview: and other Conversations (The Last Interview Series) (2014) 153 copie
One Day When I Was Lost: A Scenario Based on Alex Haley's The Autobiography of Malcolm X (1973) 113 copie
Native Sons: A Friendship that Created One of the Greatest Works of the 20th Century: Notes of a Native Son (2004) 45 copie
De mooiste verhalen van James Baldwin, John Berger, Jorge Luis Borges, Jane Bowles, Joseph Brodsky, Charles Bukowski,… (1990) 7 copie
Sonny's Blues {story} 6 copie
Revolutionary Hope: A Conversation Between James Baldwin and Audre Lorde — Autore — 5 copie
Il vero delitto e l'ignoranza 4 copie
Letter to my Nephew 3 copie
Previous Condition {story} 3 copie
On Being White and Other Lies 1 copia
Stranger in the Village {essay} 1 copia
Baldwin James 1 copia
The James Baldwin Anthology 1 copia
A revolta dos negros americanos 1 copia
Black American Writers, Bibliographical Essays, vol 2: Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin & Amiri Baraka (2017) 1 copia
Malcolm X {filmscript} 1 copia
The Rockpile {story} 1 copia
James Baldwin on Malcolm X 1 copia
The Man Child {story} 1 copia
Joseph, Dearest Joseph Mine 1 copia
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Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Collaboratore, alcune edizioni — 902 copie
All I Did Was Ask: Conversations with Writers, Actors, Musicians, and Artists (2004) — Collaboratore — 539 copie
You've Got to Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories that Held Them in Awe (1994) — Collaboratore — 376 copie
First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers (1994) — Collaboratore — 182 copie
The Actor's Book of Contemporary Stage Monologues: More Than 150 Monologues from More Than 70 Playwrights (1987) — Collaboratore — 175 copie
The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, 1899-1967: The Classic Anthology (1967) — Collaboratore — 170 copie
An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (2000) — Collaboratore — 129 copie
Black Like Us: A Century of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual African American Fiction (2002) — Collaboratore — 116 copie
Children of the Night: The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, 1967 to the Present (1995) — Collaboratore — 109 copie
Calling the Wind: Twentieth Century African-American Short Stories (1992) — Collaboratore — 95 copie
Writing New York: A Literary Anthology (Expanded 10th-Anniversary Edition) (2008) — Collaboratore — 92 copie
Go the Way Your Blood Beats: An Anthology of Lesbian and Gay Fiction by African-American Writers (1996) — Collaboratore — 88 copie
War No More: Three Centuries of American Antiwar and Peace Writing (2016) — Collaboratore — 82 copie
Freedom in this Village: Twenty-Five Years of Black Gay Men's Writing (2005) — Collaboratore — 81 copie
The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present (2020) — Collaboratore — 79 copie
Bearing Witness: Selections from African-American Autobiography in the Twentieth Century (1991) — Collaboratore — 66 copie
The Real Ebonics Debate : Power, Language, and the Education of African-American Children (1998) — Collaboratore — 66 copie
Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power and Pleasure of Reading and Writing (2018) — Collaboratore — 66 copie
Published and Perished: Memoria, Eulogies, and Remembrances of American Writers (2002) — Collaboratore — 36 copie
Fifty Years of the American Short Story from the O. Henry Awards 1919-1970 (1970) — Collaboratore — 13 copie
Democracy in Print: The best of the Progressive Magazine, 1909-2009 (2009) — Collaboratore — 12 copie
Fifty Years of the American Short Story: from the O. Henry Awards 1919-1970 (Volume I) (1970) — Collaboratore — 2 copie
32 Współczesne Opowiadania Amerykańskie - Tom II — Collaboratore — 1 copia
African American History Collection, CD 2. The Negro in American Culture — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Baldwin, James Arthur
- Data di nascita
- 1924-08-02
- Data di morte
- 1987-11-30
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Ferncliff Cemetery and Mausoleum, Hartsdale, New York, USA
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- VS
- Nazione (per mappa)
- VS
- Luogo di nascita
- Harlem, New York, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Saint-Paul de Vence, France
- Causa della morte
- cancer (stomach)
- Luogo di residenza
- New York, New York, USA
Paris, France
Istanbul, Turkey
Saint-Paul de Vence, France - Istruzione
- DeWitt Clinton High School, New York, New York, USA
The New School for Social Research - Attività lavorative
- writer
public intellectual
minister - Relazioni
- Wright, Richard (friend)
Malcolm X (friend)
Avedon, Richard (HS magazine collaborator)
Stein, Sol (friend) - Organizzazioni
- National Institute of Arts and Letters
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (1956)
Rainbow Honor Walk (2014)
National LGBTQ Wall of Honor (2019)
George Polk Memorial Award (1963)
Commandeur de la Légion d'honneur (1986)
Guggenheim Fellowship (1954) (mostra tutto 12)
Eugene F. Saxton Memorial Trust Award (1945)
Foreign Drama Critics Award (1964)
Rosenwald Foundation Fellowship (1948)
National Conference of Christians and Jews Brotherhood Award (1962)
Partisan Review Fellowship (1956)
Ford Foundation Fellowship (1958)
Utenti
Discussioni
Where to start with James Baldwin? in Book talk (Febbraio 2022)
James Baldwin in Legacy Libraries (Marzo 2016)
If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin in Geeks who love the Classics (Agosto 2015)
Recensioni
Un altro mondo di James Baldwin
Un romanzo sul mondo dei neri d'America. Batterista jazz per vocazione e mestiere, Rufus si imbarca in un rapporto d'amore con una bianca, una donna del sud più acceso e razzista. Un amore basato sì sulla sfrenatezza dei sensi, ma anche e soprattutto su una scelta libera e spontanea in grado di superare ogni barriera razziale. Ma a poco a poco tra i due si insinua la dolorosa consapevolezza della propria diversità, che porterà Leona alla follia e Rufus a uno squallido vagabondaggio nei più sordidi angoli di New York tra vizio e disperazione.… (altro)
Il primo romanzo di Baldwin, per molti tratti autobiografico, parla della vita di una famiglia dal sud schiavista ad una Harlem in cui l’integrazione è impossibile. La Chiesa Pentecostale, esuberante in ogni suo aspetto, è insieme strumento d’unione di una comunità, ma anche modello negativo in cui la scissione tra “santo” e “peccatore” è tutta la vita di chi la frequenta.
Un libro straordinario, un racconto forte, per molti versi incredibilmente attuale anche se scritto 50 anni fa. La paura di David di accettare la propria sessualità, sullo sfondo di una Parigi in cui tutto sembra essere permesso, fa davvero capire il tormento di una persona che non riesce ad accettare le conseguenze del proprio amore, in una società che ancora non accetta. Certo, molto tempo è passato, ma Baldwin riesce a descrivere con una forza di parole non semplice la paura di amare che tante persone ancora oggi provano di fronte all'accettazione della oro omosessualità.… (altro)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 96
- Opere correlate
- 87
- Utenti
- 31,860
- Popolarità
- #622
- Voto
- 4.1
- Recensioni
- 586
- ISBN
- 855
- Lingue
- 23
- Preferito da
- 156
- A proposito di
- 2
- Citazioni
- 1,096
