Nobody knows my name : more notes of a native son / James Baldwin.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Vintage Books, 1993Copyright date: Edition: First Vintage International editionDescription: xiv, 241 pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780679744733
  • 0679744738
Other title:
  • More notes of a native son
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Nobody knows my name.DDC classification:
  • 305.896/073 20
LOC classification:
  • E185.61 .B197 1993
Online resources:
Contents:
Part one. Sitting in the house. The discovery of what it means to be an American -- Princes and powers -- Fifth Avenue, uptown: a letter from Harlem -- East River, downtown: Postscript to a letter from Harlem -- A fly in the buttermilk -- Nobody knows my name: A letter from the South -- Faulkner and desegregation -- In search of a majority.
Part two. With everything on my mind. Notes for a hypothetical novel -- The male prison -- The Northern Protestant -- Alas, poor Richard -- The black boy looks at the white boy.
Summary: Provides a collection of Baldwin's essays on topics ranging from race relations in the United States--including an attack on William Faulkner for this ambivalent views about the segregated South--to the role of the writer in society, with personal accounts of such writers as Richard Wright and Norman Mailer. --From publisher description
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Originally published: New York : Dial Press, 1961.

Part one. Sitting in the house. The discovery of what it means to be an American -- Princes and powers -- Fifth Avenue, uptown: a letter from Harlem -- East River, downtown: Postscript to a letter from Harlem -- A fly in the buttermilk -- Nobody knows my name: A letter from the South -- Faulkner and desegregation -- In search of a majority.

Part two. With everything on my mind. Notes for a hypothetical novel -- The male prison -- The Northern Protestant -- Alas, poor Richard -- The black boy looks at the white boy.

Provides a collection of Baldwin's essays on topics ranging from race relations in the United States--including an attack on William Faulkner for this ambivalent views about the segregated South--to the role of the writer in society, with personal accounts of such writers as Richard Wright and Norman Mailer. --From publisher description

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