JAMES BALDWIN (1924 - 1987)

A selective bibliography of open access articles on James Baldwin, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the MLA Guidelines for Authors of Web Sites


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Literary Criticism

Brown, Stephanie Lynne. "Constructing and contesting authenticity in the postwar African-American novel [James Baldwin, Chester Himes]. PhD dissertation, Columbia, 2002

Clark, Keith. A review of Black Manhood in James Baldwin, Ernest J. Gaines, and August Wilson. (Univ. of Illinois Press, 2002) Reviewed in African American Review, Summer-Fall, 2003 by D. Quentin Miller

de Romanet, Jerome. Revisiting 'Madeleine' and "The Outing": James Baldwin's revision of Gide's sexual politics - Andre Gide - Ethnicities/Sexualities. In MELUS, Spring, 1997

Dunning, Stefanie. "Parallel perversions: interracial and same sexuality in James Baldwin's Another Country" MELUS, Winter, 2001

Dupee, F.W. A discussion of James Baldwin's essays in a review of The Fire Next Time, in The NY Review of Books, 2/1/1963

Harris, Trudier (ed.) Publisher's site for New Essays on Go Tell It on the Mountain (Cambridge Univ. Press)

Leeming, David. A review of Leeming's James Baldwin: A Biography (Knopf, 1994) African American Review, Summer, 1997 by Fred L. Standley

Leeming, David. Two reviews of Leeming's James Baldwin: A Biography from the NY Times By Mel Watkins and By Margo Jefferson

McBride, Dwight A. (ed.) A review of James Baldwin Now (New York Univ.Press, 1999) Reviewed in MELUS, Fall, 2001 by Douglas Field

Miller, D. Quentin (ed.) Re-Viewing James Baldwin: Things Not Seen (Temple Univ. Press, 2000) Reviewed by Storhoff, Gary, in African American Review, Winter, 2001

Norman, Brian. "Reading a 'closet screenplay': Hollywood, James Baldwin's Malcolms and the threat of historical irrelevance." On an unproduced screenplay by Baldwin about Malcolm X. African American Review, Spring-Summer, 2005

Olson, Barbara K. "Come-to-Jesus Stuff" in James Baldwin's 'Go tell It on the Mountain' and 'The Amen Corner.' African American Review, Summer, 1997

Scott, Lynn Orilla. A review of James Baldwin's Later Fiction: Witness to the Journey. (Michigan State Univ. Press, 2002) Reviewed in African American Review, Spring, 2004 by Douglas Field

Shin, Andrew, and Barbara Hudson. "Beneath the Black aesthetic: James Baldwin's primer of Black American masculinity - African American gay author," in African American Review, Summer, 1998

Stevenson, John. "James Baldwin: An Appreciation" In Boston Book Review, December 1995 "James Baldwin isn't much commented on these days, but for a few years in the early 1960s he lit up the cultural landscape like a bolt from the heavens..."

Tomlinson, Robert. "'Payin' one's dues': expatriation as personal experience and paradigm in the works of James Baldwin," African American Review, Spring, 1999

Teachout, Terry. "Who now reads James Baldwin?" asks this reviewer of two new Library of America editions of Baldwin's works. National Review, Feb 9, 1998

Wycliff, Don. "A preacher's son - African American author James Baldwin" Commonweal, Oct 9, 1998

Zaborowska, Magdalena J. A substantial introductory article on James Baldwin from the Literary Encyclopedia, 10/25/02


Teacher's resources

A Teacher's Guide to James Baldwin, contributing editors: Trudier Harris and John Reilly, from textbook publisher Heath

A discussion guide on Nobody Knows My Name and The Fire Next Time, from Random House Academic

"How the African-American Storyteller Impacts the Black Family and Society." A teacher's guide, by Barbara P. Moss. From the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute

"The Blues Impulse in Drama: Lessons on Racial Pain" by Paul E. Turtola, a teacher's guide from the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute

"The Family on Stage in the Americas" by Sally B. Kaczynski, a teacher's guide for using monologues in teaching, suggests using James Baldwin's The Amen Corner From the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute

"A Guide Through the Culture of the Blues," by Sloan E. Williams III, a teacher's guide from the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute

Teaching resources for James Baldwin created by C-Span, for their 2002 American Writers series


Introductory, unsigned material, early reviews

James Baldwin's obituary in the NY Times

A web page on James Baldwin from the PBS American Masters series

Brief biography of James Baldwin from Random House

A biography of James Baldwin from Books and Writers, Kuusankoski Public Library, Finland

On a video about James Baldwin, "The Price of the Ticket," 1990

A very brief biography of James Baldwin from the Black Collegian Online

Some remarks by James Baldwin on his friendships with Bobby Seale, Huey Newton and Eldridge Cleaver

A 1953 NY Times review of Go Tell It On the Mountain. (Requires a one-time user registration)

A 1956 NY Times review of Giovanni's Room

A 1956 NY Times review of Blues for Mr. Charlie

A 1958 NY Times review of Notes of a Native Son

A 1963 NY Times review of The Fire Next Time


Bibliographies

Reuben, Paul P. A primary and secondary bibliography for James Baldwin, from Dr. Reuben's bibliography web site

A secondary bibliography for James Baldwin from the Bibliography Committee of the Society for the Study of Southern Literature, briefly annotated


Web sites

A NY Times special page on James Baldwin has many articles on James Baldwin including interviews, tributes, and additional reviews. (Free but requires a one-time user registration)

A thorough list of web resources for African American writers and literature


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