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Media type:
Book;
Conference Proceedings
Title:
James Baldwin
:
his place in American literary history and his reception in Europe
Contains:
Some remarks on the reception of James Baldwin's work in the Federal Republic of Germany / Peter FreeseHistorical aspects of the reception of James Baldwin in the German Democratic Republic / Friederike Hajek -- James Baldwin in Paris / Michel Fabre -- One Boricua's Baldwin / Roberto Márquez -- Whose power? Baldwin and the "American legend of masculinity" / Hélène Cristol -- With only the rain as a witness / Fletcher DuBois -- In search of identity / James Oliver Horton -- Notes on an Afroamerican son of the word and not sonofagun! / Ted Joans -- Discursive strategies in James Baldwin's essays / Wolfgang Karrer -- James A. Baldwin-obituaries for a black Ishmael / Maria Diedrich.
Footnote:
Papers of a symposium set up by the German-American Institute in Heidelberg
Description:
A symposium of American, French and German Baldwin scholars was to reevaluate the reception of the works of James Baldwin in the United States as well as in Europe. Michel Fabre reports on Baldwin's Paris - "the city which saved his life". - The reception of Baldwin in Germany is described by Peter Freese and Friederike Hajek - Helene Christol deals with Baldwin and the American legend of masculinity - James Horton places Baldwin in the black American tradition whereas Robert Marquez indulges in the memories of a Salsa-born son - Maria Dietrich finally weighs the obituaries for a black Ishmael.