Notes of a Native Son

Dettagli prodotto

Casa editrice

Beacon Press

Pubblicato

2012

Lingua

English

Pagine

208

Info

208 Pagine

ISBN

978-0-8070-0624-5

Kurztext / Annotation

A new edition published on the twenty-fifth anniversary of Baldwin's death, including a new introduction by an important contemporary writer Since its original publication in 1955, this first nonfiction collection of essays by James Baldwin remains an American classic. His impassioned essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and African Americans abroad are as powerful today as when they were first written. ',A straight-from-the-shoulder writer, writing about the troubled problems of this troubled earth with an illuminating intensity.' Langston Hughes, The New York Times Book Review ',Written with bitter clarity and uncommon grace.' TimeFrom the Trade Paperback edition.

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Informazioni sull'autore

James Baldwin, geboren 1924 in New York, gestorben 1987 in Nizza, engagierte sich in den 60er und 70er Jahren aktiv für die Bürgerrechtsbewegung im Süden der USA. In seinen Erzählungen beschreibt er die afro-amerikanische Kultur. Berühmt wurde er durch seine Romane Giovanni's Zimmer (1956) und Eine andere Welt (1962).