James Baldwin was a uniquely prophetic voice in American letters. His brilliant and provocative essays made him the literary voice of the Civil Rights Era, and they continue to speak with powerful urgency to us today, whether in the swirling debate over the Black Lives Matter movement or in the words of Raoul Peck´s documentary I Am Not Your Negro. Edited by Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, the Library of America´s Collected Essays is the most comprehensive gathering of Baldwin´s nonfiction ever published. With burning passion and jabbing, epigrammatic wit, Baldwin fearlessly articulated issues of race and democracy and American identity in such famous essays as The Harlem Ghetto, Everybody´s Protest Novel, Many Thousands Gone, and Stranger in the Village. Here are the complete texts of his early landmark collections, Notes of a Native Son (1955) and Nobody Knows My Name (1961), which established him as an essential intellectual voice of his time, fusing in unique fashion the personal, the literary, and the political. One writes, he stated, out of one thing only--one´s own experience. Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from this experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it can possibly give. With singular eloquence an

Código de Barras - 9781883011529

Peso - 0.600 Kg

Número de Páginas - 869

Ano de edição - 1998

Autor - Baldwin, James

Editora - Penguin Books

Assunto - Biografia E Memórias

Formato - Capa Dura

Origem - Importado

Idioma - Inglês

Edição - 1

Dimensões - 13 X 20.7