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James Baldwin (1) (1924–1987)

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James Baldwin was born on August 2, 1924, in New York. Baldwin's father was a pastor who subjected his children to poverty, abuse, and religious fanaticism. As a result, many of Baldwin's recurring themes, such as alienation and rejection, are attributable to his upbringing. Living the life of a mehr anzeigen starving artist, Baldwin went through numerous jobs, including dishwasher, office boy, factory worker, and waiter. In 1948, he moved to France, where much work originated. Baldwin published Go Tell It on the Mountain in 1953. A largely autobiographical work, it tells of the religious awakening of a fourteen-year-old. In addition to his childhood experiences, his experiences as a black man and a homosexual provided inspiration for such works as Giovanni's Room, Nobody Knows My Name, and Another Country. Baldwin holds a distinguished place in American history as one of the foremost writers of both black and gay literature. He was an active participant in the Civil Rights movement. Baldwin succumbed to cancer on December 1, 1987. (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen

Werke von James Baldwin

Gehe hin und verkünde es vom Berge (1953) 5,697 Exemplare
Giovannis Zimmer (1956) 5,453 Exemplare
Eine andere Welt. (1962) 2,892 Exemplare
Beale Street Blues (1974) 2,080 Exemplare
Notes Of A Native Son (1955) 1,984 Exemplare
Zum Greifen nah. Roman. (1979) 689 Exemplare
Blues for Mister Charlie: A Play (1964) 567 Exemplare
Eine Straße und kein Name. (1972) 438 Exemplare
The Evidence of Things Not Seen (1986) 358 Exemplare
The Devil Finds Work: An Essay (1976) 332 Exemplare
Sonny's Blues and Other Stories (1970) 253 Exemplare
Dark Days {essays} (2018) 141 Exemplare
Jimmy's Blues and Other Poems (2014) 116 Exemplare
Nobody Knows My Name {essay} (1961) 108 Exemplare
I Am Not Your Negro [2016 film] (2016) — Writer — 93 Exemplare
Vintage Baldwin (2004) 85 Exemplare
Going to Meet the Man {story} (1965) 76 Exemplare
Nothing Personal: An Essay (1964) — Autor — 68 Exemplare
Jimmy's Blues: Selected Poems (1983) 58 Exemplare
Black Anti-Semitism and Jewish Racism (1969) — Mitwirkender — 38 Exemplare
A Dialogue (1900) — Autor — 36 Exemplare
Nothing Personal {2017 reprint} (2017) — Autor — 32 Exemplare
Come Out the Wilderness {story} (1958) 10 Exemplare
Meurtres à Atlanta (2020) 6 Exemplare
The Outing {story} (2014) 3 Exemplare
Letter to my Nephew 3 Exemplare
Mein Kerker bebte (1899) 3 Exemplare
Baldwin James 1 Exemplar
Musta blues (1965) 1 Exemplar
Baldwin's Nigger — Host — 1 Exemplar
Gesammelte Erzählungen (1976) 1 Exemplar
The Works of James Baldwin (2013) 1 Exemplar

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The Art of the Personal Essay (1994) — Mitwirkender — 1,371 Exemplare
The Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction (1983) — Mitwirkender — 1,130 Exemplare
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Mitwirkender, einige Ausgaben915 Exemplare
The Best American Essays of the Century (2000) — Mitwirkender — 774 Exemplare
The Oxford Book of American Short Stories (1992) — Mitwirkender — 743 Exemplare
Materialien zur Rassenjustiz (1971) — Mitwirkender — 430 Exemplare
Points of View: Revised Edition (1966) — Mitwirkender — 411 Exemplare
The Granta Book of the American Short Story (1992) — Mitwirkender — 368 Exemplare
The Art of the Tale: An International Anthology of Short Stories (1986) — Mitwirkender — 339 Exemplare
The Portable Sixties Reader (2002) — Mitwirkender — 324 Exemplare
Black Voices: An Anthology of Afro-American Literature (Mentor) (1968) — Mitwirkender — 322 Exemplare
The Faber Book of Gay Short Fiction (1992) — Mitwirkender — 321 Exemplare
Americans in Paris: A Literary Anthology (2004) — Mitwirkender — 297 Exemplare
Growing Up Gay/Growing Up Lesbian: A Literary Anthology (1993) — Mitwirkender — 285 Exemplare
100 Years of the Best American Short Stories (2015) — Mitwirkender — 282 Exemplare
Writing New York: A Literary Anthology (1998) — Mitwirkender — 275 Exemplare
The Treasury of American Short Stories (1981) — Mitwirkender — 267 Exemplare
Reporting Civil Rights, Part 1: American Journalism 1941-1963 (2003) — Mitwirkender — 235 Exemplare
Modern American Memoirs (1995) — Mitwirkender — 189 Exemplare
Gay and Lesbian Poetry in Our Time (Stonewall Inn Editions) (1836) — Mitwirkender — 179 Exemplare
Daddy Was a Number Runner (1970) — Vorwort, einige Ausgaben176 Exemplare
In Another Part of the Forest: An Anthology of Gay Short Fiction (1994) — Mitwirkender — 174 Exemplare
American Religious Poems: An Anthology (2006) — Mitwirkender — 162 Exemplare
The Columbia Anthology of Gay Literature (1998) — Mitwirkender — 158 Exemplare
New York Stories (Everyman's Pocket Classics) (2011) — Mitwirkender, einige Ausgaben152 Exemplare
Let Nobody Turn Us Around: An African American Anthology (1999) — Mitwirkender — 149 Exemplare
The Norton Book of Personal Essays (1997) — Mitwirkender — 142 Exemplare
Man Alone: Alienation in Modern Society (1962) — Mitwirkender — 141 Exemplare
Black on White: Black Writers on What It Means to Be White (1998) — Mitwirkender — 118 Exemplare
The Gates of Paradise (1993) — Mitwirkender — 113 Exemplare
Brotherman: The Odyssey of Black Men in America (1995) — Mitwirkender — 91 Exemplare
The Matter of Black Lives: Writing from The New Yorker (2021) — Mitwirkender — 90 Exemplare
Nepantla: An Anthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color (2018) — Mitwirkender — 86 Exemplare
Braided Lives: An Anthology of Multicultural American Writing (1991) — Mitwirkender — 85 Exemplare
Rotten English: A Literary Anthology (2007) — Mitwirkender — 75 Exemplare
The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Concise Edition (2003) — Mitwirkender — 68 Exemplare
200 Years of Great American Short Stories (1975) — Mitwirkender — 68 Exemplare
Memory of Kin: Stories About Family by Black Writers (1990) — Mitwirkender — 65 Exemplare
American Negro Short Stories (1966) — Mitwirkender — 61 Exemplare
The Grim Reader: Writings on Death, Dying, and Living On (1997) — Mitwirkender — 60 Exemplare
Fifty Best American Short Stories 1915-1965 (1965) — Mitwirkender — 36 Exemplare
A Way Out of No Way: Writing about Growing Up Black in America (1996) — Mitwirkender — 33 Exemplare
Partisan Review (1998) — Mitwirkender, einige Ausgaben33 Exemplare
The Best American Short Stories 1968 (1968) — Mitwirkender — 33 Exemplare
I Hear a Symphony: African Americans Celebrate Love (1994) — Mitwirkender — 33 Exemplare
The Penguin Book of Twentieth-Century Protest (1998) — Mitwirkender — 31 Exemplare
Hot and Cool: Jazz Short Stories (1990) — Mitwirkender — 30 Exemplare
Harlem U.S.A. (1964) — Mitwirkender — 29 Exemplare
A Lonely Rage: The Autobiography of Bobby Seale (1978) — Vorwort — 28 Exemplare
One World of Literature (1992) — Mitwirkender — 24 Exemplare
Classic Essays in English (1961) — Mitwirkender — 22 Exemplare
Studies in Fiction (1965) — Mitwirkender — 22 Exemplare
Black Theater USA : 45 Plays By Black Americans : 1847-1974 (1973) — Mitwirkender — 20 Exemplare
Best American Plays: 6th Series, 1963-1967 (1971) — Mitwirkender — 19 Exemplare
New World Writing: Second Mentor Selection (1952) — Mitwirkender — 12 Exemplare
Antaeus No. 62, Spring 1989 (1989) — Mitwirkender — 11 Exemplare
The Best American Short Stories 1961 (1961) — Mitwirkender — 10 Exemplare
100 years of emancipation (1963) — Mitwirkender — 10 Exemplare
Harlem: Voices from the Soul of Black America (1970) — Mitwirkender — 9 Exemplare
The Best American Short Stories 1958 (1958) — Mitwirkender — 5 Exemplare
Let Us Be Men (1969) — Mitwirkender — 3 Exemplare
Short Fiction: Shape and Substance (1971) — Mitwirkender — 3 Exemplare
Introduction to Fiction (1974) — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar

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„Du hast keine Veranlassung, so zu werden wie die Weißen, und es gibt nicht die geringste Grundlage für ihre unverfrorene Annahme, sie müssten Dich akzeptieren. Die schreckliche Wahrheit ist, mein Junge: Du musst sie akzeptieren.“ (Zitat Seite 38)

Inhalt
Diese Essaysammlung des US-amerikanischen Schriftstellers ist im Jahr 1962 unter dem englischen Titel „The Fire Next Time“ erschienen, der Tite der ersten Ausgabe in deutscher Sprache trug den Titel „Hundert Jahre Freiheit ohne Gleichberechtigung“, was eine der Kernaussagen von Baldwins Texten auf den Punkt brachte. Die vorliegende Neuauflage hält sich dagegen an den Originaltitel, ein Zitat aus dem Alten Testament. Dieses Buch umfasst zwei Abschnitte. Der erste Abschnitt trägt die Überschrift Mein Kerker bebte und enthält einen Brief an seinen Neffen zum hundertsten Jahrestag der Sklavenbefreiung. Der zweite Abschnitt trägt den Titel Vor dem Kreuz, Brief aus einer Landschaft meines Geistes und verbindet seine Erinnerungen, seine persönliche Erfahrungen mit seiner Einschätzung der amerikanischen Gesellschaft.

Umsetzung
James Baldwin schildert seine Jugend, seinen Weg in die Religion, von der er sich jedoch früh wieder abwendet, weil er die Verzweiflung und den Hass, den er dort vorfindet, nicht mit seinen Ansichten vereinbaren kann, dass es eine friedliche Lösung geben müsse, ein Annähern und gegenseitiges Verständnis, auch wenn er klar formuliert, dass dies ein sehr langer, mühevoller Weg für Amerika sein werde. Aus diesem Grund schließt er sich auch nicht der Black-Muslim-Bewegung an, fragt, ob Liebe nicht wichtiger sei, als die Hautfarbe und sieht die Zukunft Amerikas in einem Miteinander von Schwarz und Weiß. „Kurz gesagt brauchen wir, Schwarz und Weiß, einander dringend, wenn wir wirklich eine Nation werden wollen – um mit anderen Worten wirklich eine Identität zu erlangen, unsere Reife als Männer und Frauen.“ (Zitat Seite 117, 118) Das Buch beginnt mit einem Vorwort von Jana Pareigis und endet mit einer Nachbemerkung der Übersetzerin in Bezug auf die moderne Wortwahl einiger Begriffe.

Fazit
Baldwins eindrückliche Beobachtungen und Überlegungen waren nicht nur einhundert Jahre nach der formellen Abschaffung der Sklaverei in Amerika aktuell und zutreffend, sondern haben auch heute, einhundertfünfzig Jahre später, nichts von ihrer Brisanz verloren und dies nicht nur in Amerika, sondern analog auch in Europa.
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“People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love. Then, when you’re dead, when they’ve killed you by what they made you go through, they say you didn’t have any character.” (Quotation page 261)

Content
Rufus Scott is a musician and the evening he meets Leona, he plays a gig in one of the new Harlem spots. It was meant to be just one night, but soon they move in together, Rufus, charming, but also violent and full of hate, black, and the white lady from the South. Now, seven months later, Rufus is broken and lost and for him there is just one step forward left. Then things restart, but in a different setting, as Vivaldo, Rufus’s best friend, and Ida, the younger sister of Rufus, fall in love. Vivaldo, an Irish-Italian writer, as well as his friends, the now successful writer Richard and his wife Cass, are white New York Bohemians, having been friends of Rufus too, as well as Eric, a young actor, who is now comng back from Paris.

Theme and genre
“Another Country” was written between 1956 and 1961 and is a famous, timeless classic novel about racism, discrimination, the life of Black people in the white American society of the vivid city New York in the fifties. It is about music, love, dreams, hope, destructive relationships, sexuality and gender, betrayal and hate.

Characters
Rufus, one of the main characters, carries the first chapter of the story and disappears, but now comes Ida, his younger sister. There is a bit of brilliant, violent, charming and self-destructive Rufus in every main character of this novel: Vivaldo, Ida, Richard, Cass and Eric. They all are looking for changes, trying to find out who they are and who they could be.

Plot and writing
The novel is told in three main parts, with different characters in the center of the events. Book One, Easy Rider, moves between darkness, rage and philosophy. It starts with Rufus, who comes to meet his friend Vivaldo, but as they speak about what had happened, we learn from their memories and flashbacks what had happened and led to the present situation. The second book shows a profound situation of American life in that time. “And each man or woman that passed seemed also to be carrying some intolerable burden; their private lives screamed from their hot and discontented faces.” (Quotation page 265). In this Book Two, Any Day Now, we learn more about the actual situation and life of Vivaldo, Ida, Richard, Cass and Eric. Book Three is about decisions, possible future solutions, but lets us readers to think about it, offering only the possibility of changes. The powerful language is everything between realistic, clear, compassionate and profoundly touching.

Conclusion
A powerful, timeless classic novel, beautifully written.
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„It became, in a way, every room I had ever been in and every room I find myself hereafter will remind me of Giovanni’s room.” (Quotation page 76)

Content
David’s mother dies when he is only five years old and he grows up with his father and his aunt Ellen, the unmarried sister of his father. As soon as possible, he leaves and lives on his own. When he feels weary of every part of his life in New York, he moves to Paris, where he meets Hella. When he asks her to marry him, she leaves him, travels to Spain to think about her future. David stays in Paris. One evening he meets the bartender Giovanni, and from the first moment, there is a deep attraction between them. Giovanni lives in a small one-room-apartment and David moves in the same evening. When Hella comes back, David leaves Giovanni on that same day, pretending that this love affair never has happened.

Theme and genre
This novel, written 1956, is about living between truth and lies, bisexuality, love, lost innocence, shame and guilt. An important topic for Baldwin’s persons is their search for their sexual identity and the related insecurity.

Characters
David, the young American, hides his feelings for men and feels sure about Hella, wants to marry, settle down and have children. His life is a perfect vision, created for the others, but a vision, he desperately tries to believe to be true. He knows that Hella will probably come back.
Giovanni is Italian, emotional and lives his feelings. That David, whom he trusts and loves, just leaves without a word destroys him.

Plot and writing
David, the first person narrator tells the story during one night, and thinking about the next day, just in the present time. The first pages contain the whole story, revealing the major points, themes and conflict. Doing so, the author is free of any timeline and suspense level. The story moves between memories and significant events in David’s childhood, teenage years, and his years in Paris, and the hours of the present night and morning. A central point of the story is Guilleaume’s bar, a place for bohemians living their sexual diversity. Baldwin uses the scenes to describe a different live, working or without work at daytime, but waiting for the evenings and living during the night. He shows a very special picture of early Parisian mornings and the locations still open or just opening, for example the famous Les Halles.

Conclusion
Not always highly acclaimed by literary critics, this novel for a long time now is a timeless classic. Written with empathy and sensivity, in a poetic narrative language, the story gives many questions to reflect on them, about human life, decisions, possible guilt and fate.
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