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288 pages; 6 x 9 inches

A Critical Evaluation

Edited by Therman O'Daniel

When first published in 1977, James Baldwin: A Critical Evaluation marked the first comprehensive study of James Baldwin’s prolific career. Edited by the late Therman B. O’Daniel, this volume contains the perspectives of 21 scholars, who assess Baldwin’s multifaceted literary career as essayist, novelist, short-story writer, playwright, scenarist, and interlocutor. Among the contributors are: A. Russell Brooks (“Power and Mortality as Imperatives for Nikki Giovanni and James Baldwin: A View of A Dialogue”); Eugenia W. Collier (“The Phrase Unbearably Repeated” and “Thematic Patterns in Baldwin’s Essays”); Donald B. Gibson (“James Baldwin: The Political Anatomy of Space”);  Arthenia Bates Millican (“Fire as the Symbol of a Leadening Existence in ‘Going to Meet the Man’”);  Jacqueline E. Orsagh (“Baldwin’s Female Characters—A Step Forward?”);  and Darwin T. Turner (“James Baldwin and the Dilemma of the Black Dramatist”).

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