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na opowiadanie, z którego zrobiono książkę, to, . . całkiem nieźle. so much better than other short stories read in class I read this long short story awhile back when I read his whole book of short stories, Going To Meet The Man.
My brain keeps wandering back to this story again and again as I've spent this month in France,
I am told of, and witness, racism that is just like back home in the US, But I also feel some of what Baldwin was getting at in his main character's experience of here too, I can't help but become cognizant of a kind of ease between nonwhite and white people that makes it less complicated to be friends, neighbors, coworkers, couples, and family than in the US.
This is a paradox I dont understand, And this is precisely what Baldwin tackles in this short story, told through the eyes of a successful Black American musician who lives in Paris and is facing his return to the US.
And really, who could be better at taking on such a contradiction
I'd recommend this story for any American going to visit France! Librarian Note: There is than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.
sitelink See this thread for information, James Arthur Baldwin was an American novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic, James Baldwin offered a vital literary voice during the era of civil rights activism in thes ands, He was the eldest of nine children his stepfather was a minister, At age, Baldwin became a preacher at the small Fireside Pentecostal Church in Harlem, In the earlys, he transferred his faith from religion to literature, Critics, however, note the impassioned cadences of Black churches are still evident in his writing, sitelink Go Tell It on the Mountain, his first novel, is a partially autobiographical account of his yo Librarian Note: There is than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.
sitelink See this thread for information, James Arthur Baldwin was an American novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic, James Baldwin offered a vital literary voice during the era of civil rights activism in thes and 's, He was the eldest of nine children his stepfather was a minister, At age, Baldwin became a preacher at the small Fireside Pentecostal Church in Harlem, In the earlys, he transferred his faith from religion to literature, Critics, however, note the impassioned cadences of Black churches are still evident in his writing, sitelink Go Tell It on the Mountain, his first novel, is a partially autobiographical account of his youth, His essay collections sitelink Notes of a Native Son, sitelink Nobody Knows My Name, and sitelink The Fire Next Time were influential in informing a large white audience.
From, Baldwin made his home primarily in the south of France, but often returned to the USA to lecture or teach, In, he began spending half of each year in New York City, His novels include sitelink Giovanni's Room, about a white American expatriate who must come to terms with his homosexuality, and sitelink Another Country, about racial and gay sexual tensions among New York intellectuals.
His inclusion of gay themes resulted in a lot of savage criticism from the Black community, Eldridge Cleaver, of the Black Panthers, stated the Baldwin's writing displayed an "agonizing, total hatred of blacks, " Baldwin's play, Blues for Mister Charlie, was produced in, sitelink Going to Meet the Man and sitelink Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone provided powerful descriptions of American racism, As an openly gay man, he became increasingly outspoken in condemning discrimination against lesbian and gay
people, On November,Baldwin died from stomach cancer in Saint Paul de Vence, France, He was buried at the Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale, near New York City, sitelink.