A Historical Guide to James Baldwin

Douglas Field is Lecturer in Contemporary Literature, Staffordshire University, UK and he is the book review editor for Callaloo.

• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ; ABBREVIATIONS ; DOUGLAS FIELD ; RANDALL KENAN ; BALDWIN IN HIS TIME ; AND GIFTS OF BLACK EVANGELICALISM ; CLARENCE E. HARDY III ; D. QUENTIN MILLER ; LIEUX DE MEMOIRE WITHIN A USABLE PAST ; JUSTIN A. JOYCE & DWIGHT A. MCBRIDE ; RE-IMAGINING AMERICAN IDENTITY: ; JAMES BALDWIN AND THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT ; LYNN ORILLA SCOTT ; AND THE OTHER ATLANTIC ; MAGDALENA J. ZABOROWSKA ; ILLUSTRATED CHRONOLOGY ; BIBLIOGRAPHIC ESSAY: ; THE PRICE OF THE TICKET: ; BALDWIN CRITICISM IN PERSPECTIVE ; CAROL E. HENDERSON

A Historical Guide to James Baldwin is welcome and timely. It caps a decade of renewed interest in this major twentieth-century figure and sets the terms of debate for the decade to come. Moreover, as a Baldwin scholar and a student in an undergraduate seminar on Baldwin, we can testify to how it speaks to scholars at all levels and lends itself to course adoption...This collection belongs on the shelf of any Baldwin scholar, student, or aficionado.