Conversations with James Baldwin

This collection of interviews with James Baldwin covers the period 1961-1987, from the year of the publication of Nobody Knows My Names, his fourth book, to just a few weeks before his death. It includes the last formal conversation with him.

Twenty-seven interviews reprinted here come from a variety of sources--newspapers, radio, journals, and review--and show this celebrated author in all his eloquence, anger, and perception of racial, social, and literary situations in America.

Over the years Baldwin proved to be an easily accessible and cooperative subject for interviews, both in the United States and abroad. He frequently referred to himself as "a kind of trans-Atlantic commuter." Whether candidly discussing his own ghetto origins, his literary mission and achievements, his role in the civil rights movement, or his views on world affairs, black and white relations, Vietnam, Christianity, and fellow writers, Baldwin was always both popular and controversial.

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Author: Fred L. Standley, James a. Baldwin
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 05/01/1989
Pages: 312
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.02lbs
Size: 8.98h x 6.08w x 0.82d
ISBN13: 9780878053896
ISBN10: 0878053891
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | American | General

About the Author
Fred R. Standley is coeditor (with Louis H. Pratt) of Conversations with James Baldwin, published by University Press of Mississippi. Louis H. Pratt is coeditor (with Fred R. Standley) of Conversations with James Baldwin, published by University Press of Mississippi.