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Price of the Ticket : Collected Nonfiction: 1948-1985 by James Baldwin (2021, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherBeacon Press
ISBN-100807006564
ISBN-139780807006566
eBay Product ID (ePID)18050082035
Product Key Features
Book TitlePrice of the Ticket : Collected Nonfiction: 1948-1985
Number of Pages704 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2021
TopicAmerican / African American, United States / 20th Century, Essays, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
GenreLiterary Criticism, Social Science, Literary Collections, History
AuthorJames Baldwin
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height2 in
Item Weight36.5 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2021-012704
TitleLeadingThe
Reviews"With burning passion and jabbing, epigrammatic acuity, Baldwin fearlessly articulates issues of race, democracy, and American identity." --Toni Morrison
Table Of ContentCONTENTS Introduction : The Price of the Ticket The Harlem Ghetto Lockridge: "The American Myth" Journey to Atlanta Everybody's Protest Novel Encounter on the Seine: Black Meets Brown Princes and Powers Many Thousands Gone Stranger in the Village A Question of Identity The Male Prison Carmen Jones: The Dark Is Light Enough Equal in Paris Notes of a Native Son Faulkner and Desegregation The Crusade of Indignation A Fly in Buttermilk The Discovery of What It Means to Be an American On Catfish Row Nobody Knows My Name: A Letter from the South The Northern Protestant Fifth Avenue, Uptown They Can't Turn Back In Search of a Majority Notes for a Hypothetical Novel The Dangerous Road Before Martin Luther King East River, Downtown Alas, Poor Richard The Black Boy Looks at the White Boy The New Lost Generation The Creative Process Color A Talk to Teachers The Fire Next Time: My Dungeon Shook Nothing Personal Words of a Native Son The American Dream and the American Negro White Man's Guilt A Report from Occupied Territory Negroes Are Anti-Semitic Because They're Anti-White White Racism or World Community? Sweet Lorraine No Name in the Street A Review of Roots The Devil Finds Work An Open Letter to Mr. Carter Every Good-Bye Ain't Gone If Black English Isn't a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is? An Open Letter to the Born Again Dark Days Notes on the House of Bondage Here Be Dragons First Published
SynopsisA Comprehensive Collection of James Baldwin's powerful nonfiction work. Personal and prophetic, these essays uncover what it means to live in a racist American society with insights as fresh today as they were over the five decades in which he composed them. Edited by Baldwin himself and published now for the first time in paperback, this volume includes the full text of all of Baldwin's major nonfiction works, including all the essays in Notes of a Native Son and Nobody Knows My Name, as well as from The Fire Next Time, No Name In The Street, The Devil Finds Work, and dozens of other key works. As Colm Tóibín observed: "Baldwin ... could work wonders with the light and shade of intimacy ... with passages ... that have a gorgeous, fearless sound, tempered by dark knowledge and pain, that make clear that Baldwin was ready to become the greatest American prose stylist of his generation." Book jacket., An essential compendium of James Baldwin's most powerful nonfiction work, calling on us "to end the racial nightmare, and achieve our country." Personal and prophetic, these essays uncover what it means to live in a racist American society with insights that feel as fresh today as they did over the 4 decades in which he composed them. Longtime Baldwin fans and especially those just discovering his genius will appreciate this essential collection of his great nonfiction writing, available for the first time in affordable paperback. Along with 46 additional pieces, it includes the full text of dozens of famous essays from such books as: - Notes of a Native Son - Nobody Knows My Name - The Fire Next Time - No Name in the Street - The Devil Finds Work This collection provides the perfect entrée into Baldwin's prescient commentary on race, sexuality, and identity in an unjust American society., An essential compendium of James Baldwin's most powerful nonfiction work, calling on us "to end the racial nightmare, and achieve our country." Personal and prophetic, these essays uncover what it means to live in a racist American society with insights that feel as fresh today as they did over the 4 decades in which he composed them. Longtime Baldwin fans and especially those just discovering his genius will appreciate this essential collection of his great nonfiction writing, available for the first time in affordable paperback. Along with 46 additional pieces, it includes the full text of dozens of famous essays from such books as: * Notes of a Native Son * Nobody Knows My Name * The Fire Next Time * No Name in the Street * The Devil Finds Work This collection provides the perfect entrée into Baldwin's prescient commentary on race, sexuality, and identity in an unjust American society.
LC Classification NumberPS3552.A45P7 2021
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