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Notes of a native son / [electronic resource] James Baldwin.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Boston : Beacon Press, c1984, c1955.Description: xvi, 175 p. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 0807064319 (pbk.) :
  • 9780807064313 (pbk.)
  • 0745300596 (pbk)
  • 9780745300597 (pbk)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.8/96073 20
LOC classification:
  • E185.61 .B2 1984
Other classification:
  • HU 3093
Online resources:
Contents:
Everybody's protest novel -- Many thousands gone -- Carmen Jones: the dark is light enough -- The Harlem ghetto -- Journey to Atlanta -- Notes of a Native Son -- Encounter on the Seine: Black meets Brown -- A question of identity -- Equal in Paris -- Stranger in the village.
Summary: Originally published in 1955, James Baldwin's first nonfiction book has become a classic. These searing essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and Americans abroad remain as powerful today as when they were written. "He named for me the things you feel but couldn't utter. . . . Jimmy's essays articulated for the first time to white America what it meant to be American and a black American at the same time."
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Everybody's protest novel -- Many thousands gone -- Carmen Jones: the dark is light enough -- The Harlem ghetto -- Journey to Atlanta -- Notes of a Native Son -- Encounter on the Seine: Black meets Brown -- A question of identity -- Equal in Paris -- Stranger in the village.

Originally published in 1955, James Baldwin's first nonfiction book has become a classic. These searing essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and Americans abroad remain as powerful today as when they were written. "He named for me the things you feel but couldn't utter. . . . Jimmy's essays articulated for the first time to white America what it meant to be American and a black American at the same time."

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