Fire Next Time
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'A seminal meditation on race by one of our greatest writers' Barack Obama 'We, the black and the white, deeply need each other here if we are really to become a nation'James Baldwin's impassioned plea to 'end the racial nightmare' in America was a bestseller when it appeared in 1963, galvanising a nation and giving voice to the emerging civil rights movement. Told in the form of two intensely personal 'letters', The Fire Next Time is at once a powerful evocation of Baldwin's early life in Harlem and an excoriating condemnation of the terrible legacy of racial injustice. 'Sermon, ultimatum, confession, deposition, testament, and chronicle ... all presented in searing, brilliant prose' The New York Times Book Review'Baldwin writes with great passion ... it reeks of truth, as the ghettoes of New York and London, Chicago and Manchester reek of our hypocrisy' Sunday Times'The great poet-prophet of the civil rights movement ... his seminal work' Guardian
CONTRIBUTORS: James Baldwin
EAN: 9780140182750
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
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WEIGHT: 78 g
HEIGHT: 198 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Penguin Books Ltd
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GENRE: HISTORY / United States / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / African American Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Race & Ethnic Relations
WIDTH: 129 cm
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Book Themes:
United States of America, USA, c 1954 to c 1968 (era of the American Civil Rights Movement), Relating to African American / Black American people, Literary essays, Racism and racial discrimination / Anti-racism, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Human rights, civil rights, History of the Americas, Religion and politics
Riveting . . . part of Baldwin's enduring power is that he was not a political thinker. He was interested in the soul's dark spaces much more than in the body politic., The great poet-prophet of the civil rights movement ... his seminal work, Sermon, ultimatum, confession, deposition, testament, and chronicle . . . all presented in searing, brilliant prose, Baldwin writes with great passion ... it reeks of truth, as the ghettoes of New York and London, Chicago and Manchester reek of our hypocrisy, A true prophet . . . his thought and its utterance are nothing less than majestical
Born in Harlem in 1924, James Baldwin was a novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, social critic, and the author of more than twenty books. His first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain, appeared in 1953 to excellent reviews, and his essay collection The Fire Next Time was a bestseller that made him an influential figure in the civil rights movement. Baldwin spent many years in France, where he moved to escape the racism and homophobia of the United States. He died in 1987.
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'A seminal meditation on race by one of our greatest writers' Barack Obama 'We, the black and the white, deeply need each other here if we are really to become a nation'James Baldwin's impassioned plea to 'end the racial nightmare' in America was a bestseller when it appeared in 1963, galvanising a nation and giving voice to the emerging civil rights movement. Told in the form of two intensely personal 'letters', The Fire Next Time is at once a powerful evocation of Baldwin's early life in Harlem and an excoriating condemnation of the terrible legacy of racial injustice. 'Sermon, ultimatum, confession, deposition, testament, and chronicle ... all presented in searing, brilliant prose' The New York Times Book Review'Baldwin writes with great passion ... it reeks of truth, as the ghettoes of New York and London, Chicago and Manchester reek of our hypocrisy' Sunday Times'The great poet-prophet of the civil rights movement ... his seminal work' Guardian
CONTRIBUTORS: James Baldwin
EAN: 9780140182750
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
PAGES:
WEIGHT: 78 g
HEIGHT: 198 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Penguin Books Ltd
DATE PUBLISHED:
CITY:
GENRE: HISTORY / United States / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / African American Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Race & Ethnic Relations
WIDTH: 129 cm
SPINE:
Book Themes:
United States of America, USA, c 1954 to c 1968 (era of the American Civil Rights Movement), Relating to African American / Black American people, Literary essays, Racism and racial discrimination / Anti-racism, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Human rights, civil rights, History of the Americas, Religion and politics
Born in Harlem in 1924, James Baldwin was a novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, social critic, and the author of more than twenty books. His first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain, appeared in 1953 to excellent reviews, and his essay collection The Fire Next Time was a bestseller that made him an influential figure in the civil rights movement. Baldwin spent many years in France, where he moved to escape the racism and homophobia of the United States. He died in 1987.
