All Those Strangers: The Art and Lives of James Baldwin

by Douglas Field

Adored by many, appalling to some, baffling still to others, few authors defy any single critical narrative to the confounding extent that James Baldwin manages. Was he a black or queer writer? Was he a religious or secular writer? Was he a spokesman for the civil rights movement or a champion of the individual? His critics, as disparate as his readership, endlessly wrestle with paradoxes, not just in his work but also in the life of a man who described...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199384150
• ISBN13: 9780199384150
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"