James Baldwin Challenging Authors
"The recognition and study of African American (AA) artists and public intellectuals often include Martin Luther King, Jr., and occasionally Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, and Malcolm X. The literary canon also adds Ralph Ellison, Richard White, Lan
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Critical Literacy Teaching Series: Challenging Authors and Genre Volume 5 Series Editor: P. L. Thomas, Furman University, Greenville, USA
Editorial Board: Leila Christenbury, Virginia Commonwealth University Jeanne Gerlach, University of Texas-Arlington Ken Lindblom, Stony Brook University Renita Schmidt, Furman University Karen Stein, University of Rhode Island Shirley Steinberg, McGill University, Montreal
This series explores in separate volumes major authors and genres through a critical literacy lens that seeks to offer students opportunities as readers and writers to embrace and act upon their own empowerment. Each volume will challenge authors (along with examining authors that are themselves challenging) and genres as well as challenging norms and assumptions associated with those authors’ works and genres themselves. Further, each volume will confront teachers, students, and scholars by exploring all texts as politically charged mediums of communication. The work of critical educators and scholars will guide each volume, including concerns about silenced voices and texts, marginalized people and perspectives, and normalized ways of being and teaching that ultimately dehumanize students and educators.
James Baldwin Challenging Authors
Edited by A. Scott Henderson and P. L. Thomas Furman University, Greenville, USA
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
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Introduction: To Jimmy (and Jose), with Love P. L. Thomas 1
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Conversion Calls for Confrontation: Facing the Old to Become New in the Work of James Baldwin McKinley E. Melton
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Why Theater, Mr. Baldwin?: The Amen Corner and Blues for Mister Charlie Susan Watson Turner
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Baldwin in South Africa Hugo M. Canham
41
From James’ Portrait to Baldwin’s Room: Dismantling the Frames of American Manhood Dwan Henderson Simmons
55
Another Country: James Baldwin at “Home” (and) Abroad Sion Dayson
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Feeling in Radical Consciousness: James Baldwin’s Anger as a Critique of Capitalism Jeffrey Santa Ana
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James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time and the Jeremiad Tradition James Tackach
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James Baldwin: Artist as Activist and the Baldwin/Kennedy Secret Summit of 1963 Charles Reese
121
Uplift Versus Upheaval: The Pedagogica
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