James Baldwin (1924-1987) was a novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic, and one of America's foremost writers. His essays, such as "Notes of a Native Son" (1955), explore palpable yet unspoken intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in Western societies, most notably in mid-twentieth-century America. A Harlem, New York, native, he primarily made his home in the south of France.
His novels include Giovanni's Room (1956), about a white American expatriate who must come to terms with his homosexuality, and Another Country (1962), about racial and gay sexual tensions among New York intellectuals. His inclusion of gay themes resulted in much savage criticism from the black community. Going to Meet the Man (1965) and Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone (1968) provided powerful descriptions of American racism. As an openly gay man, he became increasingly outspoken in condemning discrimination against lesbian and gay people.
" Mountain ," Baldwin said, "is the book I had to write if I was ever going to write anything else." Go Tell It On The Mountain , first published in 1953, is Baldwin's first major work, a novel that has established itself as an American classic. With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating symbolic power, and a rage that is at once unrelenting and compassionate, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's discovery of the terms of his identity as the stepson of the minister of a storefront Pentecostal church in Harlem one Saturday in March of 1935. Baldwin's rendering of his protagonist's spiritual, sexual, and moral struggle of self-invention opened new possibilities in the American language and in the way Americans understand themselves.
前不久,我无意间发现了两本美国黑人著名作家:詹姆斯.鲍德温的《比尔街情仇》《向苍天呼吁》!而且还是中文版!虽然版本很老旧,前者是1995年,后者1983年出版。书页因时间的原因以褐黄和有些破损,但不影响阅读。我回到家后马上翻开开始了阅读。 《比尔街情仇》也称《假若比...
评分前不久,我无意间发现了两本美国黑人著名作家:詹姆斯.鲍德温的《比尔街情仇》《向苍天呼吁》!而且还是中文版!虽然版本很老旧,前者是1995年,后者1983年出版。书页因时间的原因以褐黄和有些破损,但不影响阅读。我回到家后马上翻开开始了阅读。 《比尔街情仇》也称《假若比...
评分前不久,我无意间发现了两本美国黑人著名作家:詹姆斯.鲍德温的《比尔街情仇》《向苍天呼吁》!而且还是中文版!虽然版本很老旧,前者是1995年,后者1983年出版。书页因时间的原因以褐黄和有些破损,但不影响阅读。我回到家后马上翻开开始了阅读。 《比尔街情仇》也称《假若比...
评分前不久,我无意间发现了两本美国黑人著名作家:詹姆斯.鲍德温的《比尔街情仇》《向苍天呼吁》!而且还是中文版!虽然版本很老旧,前者是1995年,后者1983年出版。书页因时间的原因以褐黄和有些破损,但不影响阅读。我回到家后马上翻开开始了阅读。 《比尔街情仇》也称《假若比...
评分前不久,我无意间发现了两本美国黑人著名作家:詹姆斯.鲍德温的《比尔街情仇》《向苍天呼吁》!而且还是中文版!虽然版本很老旧,前者是1995年,后者1983年出版。书页因时间的原因以褐黄和有些破损,但不影响阅读。我回到家后马上翻开开始了阅读。 《比尔街情仇》也称《假若比...
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