PD Dr. Stefan L. Brandt Summer Term 2009

James Baldwin and the Literary Constitution of Blackness

Selected Bibliography

Primary works (selection)

Nonfiction “Anti-Semitism and Black Power.” Freedomways 7 (Winter 1967): 75-77. “As Much Truth as One Can Bear.” New York Times Book Review (14 Jan. 1962): 1, 38. Conversations with . Eds. Fred L. Standley and Louis H. Pratt. Jackson: Univ. Press of Mississippi, 1989. . James Baldwin and Nikki Giovanni. Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott, 1973. . New York: Dial Press, 1963. “Go the Way Your Blood Beats.” [1984]. Interview with Richard Goldstein. In: Troupe, Quentin, ed., James Baldwin: The Legacy , 1989. 173-185. “History as Nightmare.” New Leader 30 (25 Oct. 1947): 11, 15. “Liberalism and the Negro: A Roundtable Discussion.” Commentary 37 (March 1964): 25-42. “The Negro in American Culture.” Cross Currents XI (1961): 205. “The Nigger We Invent.” Integrated Education 7 (March/Apr. 1969): 15-23. : More . New York: The Dial Press, 1961. Here especially: “The Discovery of What It Means to Be an American” (3-12). “Alas, Poor Richard” (181-215). “The Black Boy Looks at the White Boy” (216-241). “The Male Prison” (155-162). Notes of a Native Son. Boston: Beacon Press, 1955. Here especially: “Everybody’s Protest Novel” (13-23). “Many Thousands Gone” (24-45). “Notes of a Native Son” (85-114). “Equal in Paris” (138-158). Nothing Personal . With photographs by Richard Avedon. New York: Penguin Books, 1964. . Collected Nonfiction, 1948-1985 . New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1985. Here especially: “The New Lost Generation” (originally published July 1961) (305-313). A Rap on Race . With Margaret Mead. New York: Dell Publishing, 1992. “Revolutionary Hope: A Conversation between James Baldwin and Audre Lorde.” Essence 15 (Dec. 1984): 72-74, 129-133. “Too Late, Too Late.” Commentary (January 1949): 96-99. “What Price Freedom?” Freedomways 4 (Spring 1964): 191-195. “The White Problem.” In: Goldwin, Robert A., ed. 100 Years of Emancipation . Chicago: Rand McNally, 1964. “Why I Stopped Hating Shakespeare.” The Observer (19 April 1964): 21.

Novels . New York: Dial Press, 1962. Giovanni‘s Room . New York: Dial Press, 1956. Go Tell It on the Mountain . New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1953. If Beale Street Could Talk . London: Joseph, 1974. . New York: Dial Press, 1979. Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone . A Novel . New York: Dial Press, 1968.

Plays . New York, 1968. : A Play . New York: Dial Press, 1964.

Poetry Jimmy’s Blues. Selected Poems . New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1986.

Stories Favorite Tales of Long Ago . Retold by James Baldwin. Illustrated by Lili Réthi. New Yorek: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1955. Here especially: “Androclus and the Lion” (72-77). “The Sword of Damocles” (78-81). “Damon and Pythias” (82-84). . London: Black Swan, 1965. Here especially: “The Rockpile” (9-18). “The Outing” (19-45). “Sonny’s Blues” (82-116). “Going to Meet the Man” (187-206).

Secondary materials (Selection)

Abarry, Abu. “The African-American Legacy in American Literature.” Journal of Black Studies 20 (1990): 379-398. Balfour, Lawrie. The Evidence of Things Not Said: James Baldwin and the Promise of American Democracy . Ithaca & London: Cornell Univ. Press, 2001. Blair, Sara. Harlem Crossroads: Black Writers and the Photograph in the Twentieth Century. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 2007. Bobia, Rosa. The Critical Reception of James Baldwin in France. NY: Peter Lang, 1997. Brandt, Stefan L. “A Room Far Out: Ethnic/Sexual Borderlands and the Discursive Limits of Space in James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room .” In: Soler, N.P., Alonso, L., and Rodríguez, F.C., eds., Masculinities, Femininities, and the Power of the Hybrid in U.S. Narratives: Essays on Gender Borders . Heidelberg: Winter, 2007. 173-189. ——. “Grotesque Bodies: Blackness, Homosexuality, and Embodied Deviance.” In: Brandt, The Culture of Corporeality: Aesthetic Experience and the Embodiment of America, 1945-1960 . Heidelberg: Carl Winter Verlag, 2007. 311-338. Bruck, Peter. Von der ‘Store Front Church zum ‘American Dream’: James Baldwin und der amerikanische Rassenkonflikt . Amsterdam: Verlag B.R. Grüner, 1975. Burt, Nancy V. and Fred L. Standley. eds. Critical essays on James Baldwin . Boston: G.K. Hall, 1988. Campbell, James. Talking at the Gates: A Life of James Baldwin. New York: Penguin Books, 1991. ——. Exiled in Paris: Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Samuel Beckett, and Others on the Left Bank. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 2003. ——. Syncopations: Beats, New Yorkers, and Writers in the Dark. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 2008. Charney, Maurice. “James Baldwin’s Quarrel with Richard Wright.” [1963]. In: Gibson, ed., Five Black Writers: Essays on Wright, Ellison, Baldwin, Hughes, and Leroi Jones , 1970. 243-253. Clark, Keith. Black Manhood in James Baldwin, Ernest J. Gaines and August Wilson. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, 2002. Cobb, Michael L. “Pulpitic Publicity: James Baldwin and the Queer Uses of Religious Words.” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 7.2 (2001): 285-312. Coleman, James W. Faithful Visions: Treatments of the Sacred, Spiritual and Supernatural in Twentieth-Century African American Fiction . Baton Rouge: Louisiana State Univ. Press, 2006. Dragulescu, Luminita M. “Into the Room and Out of the Closet: (Homo)Sexuality and Commodification in James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room .” Gender Forum 16 (Issue “Gender Roomours II: Gender and Space”) (Winter 2007): < http://www.genderforum.uni- koeln.de/space2/article_dragulescu.html >. Field, Douglas. “Looking for Jimmy Baldwin: Sex, Privacy, and Black Nationalist Fervor.” Callaloo 27.2 (2004): 457-480. ——. Review of James Baldwin’s ‘Go Tell It on the Mountain: Historical and Critical Essays and James Baldwin’s God: Sex, Hope, and Crisis in Black Holiness Culture . Callaloo 30.2 (Spring 2007): 665-669 . Gibson, Donald B., ed. Five Black Writers: Essays on Wright, Ellison, Baldwin, Hughes, and Leroi Jones . New York: New York Univ. Press, 1970. Hardy, Clarence E. James Baldwin's God: Sex, Hope, and Crisis in Black Holiness Culture. Knoxville: Univ. of Tennessee Press, 2003. Harris, Trudier. Black Women in the Fiction of James Baldwin . Knoxville: Univ. of Tennessee Press, 1985. Henderson, Carol E., ed James Baldwin’s ‘Go Tell It on the Mountain’: Historical and Critical Essays . New York: Peter Lang, 2006. Johnson-Roullier, Cyraina. “(An)Other Modernism: James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room, and the Rhetoric of Flight.” Modern Fiction Studies 45.4 (1999): 932-956. ——. Reading on the Edge: Exiles, Modernities, and Cultural Transformation in Proust, Joyce, and Baldwin. Albany: State Univ. of New York Press, 2000. Jones, Beau Fly. “James Baldwin: The Struggle for Identity.” The British Journal of Sociology 17.2 (June 1966): 107-121. Kenan, Randall, and Amy Sickels. James Baldwin . Introduction by Lesléa Newman. Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers, 2005. King, Lovalerie, and Lynn Orilla Scott, eds. James Baldwin and Toni Morrison: Comparative Critical and Theoretical Essays . New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. Köllhofer, Jakob, ed. James Baldwin: His Place in American Literary History and His Reception in Europe . Frankfurt a.M. & New York: P. Lang, 1991. Leeming, David A. James Baldwin a biography . NY: Knopf, 1994. Lewis, Pericles. “Churchgoing in the Modern Novel.” modernism/modernity 11.4 (2004): 669- 694. Margolies, Edward. New York and the Literary Imagination: The City in Twentieth Century Fiction and Drama. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2008. MacInnes, Colin. “Dark Angel: The Writings of James Baldwin.” [1963]. In: Gibson, ed., Five Black Writers: Essays on Wright, Ellison, Baldwin, Hughes, and Leroi Jones , 1970. 119-142. McBride, Dwight A., ed. James Baldwin Now . New York: New York Univ. Press, 1999. Miller, D. Quentin, ed. Re-Viewing James Baldwin: Things Not Seen . Foreword by David Adams Leeming. Philadelphia: Temple Univ. Press, 2000. Murray, Rolland. Our Living Manhood: Literature, Black Power, and Masculine Ideology. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. Nelson, Emmanuel S. “James Baldwin’s Vision of Otherness and Community.” [1983]. In: Standley, Fred L., and Nancy V. Burt, eds., Critical Essays on James Baldwin . Boston, Mass.: G.K. Hall, 1988. 121-125. Norman, Brian. The American Protest Essay and National Belonging: Addressing Division. Albany: State Univ. of New York Press, 2007. Pinckney, Daryl. “James Baldwin: The Risks of Love.” The New York Review of Books 47.6 (April 13, 2000). Porter, Horace. Stealing the Fire The Art and Protest of James Baldwin . Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan Univ. Press, 1989. Reid-Pharr, Robert. Once You Go Black: Choice, Desire, and the Black American Intellectual. New York: New York Univ. Press, 2007. Relyea, Sarah. Outsider Citizens: The Remaking of Postwar Identity in Wright, Beauvoir, and Baldwin. NY: Routledge, 2006. Ross, Marlon B. “White Fantasies of Desire: Baldwin and the Racial Identities of Sexuality.” In: McBride, Dwight A., ed. James Baldwin Now , 1999. 13-55. Rosset, Lisa. James Baldwin. NY: Chelsea House Publishers, 1989. Scott, Lynn O. James Baldwin's Later Fiction: Witness to the Journey. East Lansing: Michigan State University, 2002. Spender, Stephen. “James Baldwin: Voice of a Revolution.” [1963]. In: Standley, Fred L., and Nancy V. Burt, eds., Critical Essays on James Baldwin . Boston, Mass.: G.K. Hall, 1988. 228- 232. Standley, Fred, and Louis H. Pratt. eds. Conversations with James Baldwin . 1989. Troupe, Quincy, ed. James Baldwin: The Legacy . New York: Simon and Schuster, 1989. Washington, Byran R. Politics of Exile: Ideology in Henry James, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and James Baldwin. Boston: Northeastern Univ. Press, 1995. Young-Minor, Ethel. “Reading Religion in African American Narratives.” Southern Literary Journal 41.1 (Fall 2008): 155-157.