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Books by and about James Baldwin
Carol E. Henderson,
James Baldwin's Go Tell It on the Mountain: Historical And
Critical Essays.
Peter Lang
Publishing, 2006.
James Baldwin,
Go
Tell It on the Mountain. Penguin Books New Ed, 2001
James Baldwin,
The Fire Next Time. Vintage; Reissue edition, 1992
James Baldwin,
Notes of a Native Son.
Beacon Press; Reissue edition 1984
James Baldwin,
If Beale
Street Could Talk. Vintage; Reprint edition, 2006
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Celebrate
the 50th Anniversary of the Publication
of James Baldwin's Go Tell It On The Mountain
May 15 Deadline
In 2003, we will celebrate the 50th
anniversary of the publication of James Baldwin's provocative
narrative Go Tell It On The Mountain.
To celebrate this achievement, MAWA
Review will devote its Winter issue tothe discussion of
Baldwin's novel. We solicit your help in making this issue a
successful one. The editorial board invites papers for
possible consideration in this issue on a variety of topics
related to the prominent themes in Baldwin's narrative:
spirituality
and sexuality
sin
and remorse
black
masculinity
the
politics of gender roles and religion
double
consciousness and its various manifestations
body
and soul
sacred
and the secular
the
spirit and the flesh
love
and sex
the
city and the black church
betrayal, family, and
marriage
We will be glad to consider papers on other
topics related to Baldwin as well as long as the general premise
of the essay considers the new critical approaches to Go Tell
It On The Mountain.
Please send your inquires to: ceh@udel.edu
You can also send a hard copy of your
abstract or your completed 15-20pp. essay (along with a disk)
to:
Dr. Carol E.
Henderson, Special Issue Editor
MAWA Review
University of
Delaware
English
Department
212 Memorial
Hall
Newark, DE 19716
The deadline for consideration of this
issue has been extended to May 15. Completed papers
are still due by July 30, 2003.
Note: MAWA Review is listed
in the MLA Bibliography of Periodicals and has been for over 15
years.
| Selected Works
Go Tell It on the Mountain, 1953
Notes of a Native Son, 1955
Giovanni's Room, 1956
Nobody Know
My Name (, 1962
Another Country, 1962
The Fire Next Time, 1963
Blues for Mister Charlie (a play, produced in 1964)
Going to Meet the Man, 1965
Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone, 1968
A Rap on Race, with Margaret Mead, 1971
If Beale
Street Could Talk 1974
The Devil Finds Work, 1976
Just Above My Head, 1979
The Evidence of Things Not Seen, 1985
The Price of the Ticket: Collected Non-Fiction,
1948-1985, 1985
Perspectives: Angles on African Art, 1987
Conversations with James Baldwin, 1989
Early Novels and Stories, 1998
Collected Essays, 1998 (ed. by Toni Morrison) |
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Take this
Hammer—a James Baldwin documentary
KQED's film unit
follows poet and activist James Baldwin in the spring of
1963, as he's driven around San Francisco to meet with
members of the local African-American community. He is
escorted by Youth For Service's Executive Director Orville
Luster and intent on discovering: "The real situation of
negroes in the city, as opposed to the image San Francisco
would like to present." He declares: "There is no moral
distance . . . between the facts of life in San Francisco
and the facts of life in Birmingham. Someone's got to tell
it like it is. And that's where it's at." Includes frank
exchanges with local people on the street, meetings with
community leaders and extended point-of-view sequences shot
from a moving vehicle, featuring the Bayview and Western
Addition neighborhoods.
Baldwin reflects on the
racial inequality that African-Americans are forced to
confront and at one point tries to lift the morale of a
young man by expressing his conviction that "There will be a
negro president of this country but it will not be the
country that we are sitting in now."
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What Orwell Didn't Know
Propaganda and the New Face of American Politics
By Andras Szanto
Propaganda. Manipulation. Spin. Control. It has ever been thus—or has it? On the eve of the 60th anniversary of George Orwell's classic essay on propaganda (Politics and the English Language), writers have been invited to explore what Orwell didn't—or couldn't—know. Their responses, framed in pithy, focused essays, range far and wide: from the effect of television and computing, to the vast expansion of knowledge about how our brains respond to symbolic messages, to the merger of journalism and entertainment, to lessons learned during and after a half-century of totalitarianism. Together, they paint a portrait of a political culture in which propaganda and mind control are alive and well (albeit in forms and places that would have surprised Orwell). The pieces in this anthology sound alarm bells about the manipulation and misinformation in today's politics, and offer guideposts for a journalism attuned to Orwellian tendencies in the 21st century. |
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The Gardens of Democracy: A New American Story
of Citizenship, the Economy, and the Role of Government
By Eric Liu and Nick Hanauer
American democracy is informed by the 18th century’s most cutting edge thinking on society, economics, and government. We’ve learned some things in the intervening 230 years about self interest, social behaviors, and how the world works. Now, authors Eric Liu and Nick Hanauer argue that some fundamental assumptions about citizenship, society, economics, and government need updating. For many years the dominant metaphor for understanding markets and government has been the machine. Liu and Hanauer view democracy not as a machine, but as a garden. A successful garden functions according to the inexorable tendencies of nature, but it also requires goals, regular tending, and an understanding of connected ecosystems. The latest ideas from science, social science, and economics—the cutting-edge ideas of today—generate these simple but revolutionary ideas: (The economy is not an efficient machine. It’s an effective garden that need tending. Freedom is responsibility. Government should be about the big what and the little how. True self interest is mutual interest. |
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The White Masters of the
World
From
The World and Africa, 1965
By W. E. B. Du Bois
W. E. B. Du Bois’
Arraignment and Indictment of White Civilization
(Fletcher)
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