James Baldwin's Later Fiction: Witness to the Journey by Lynn O. Scott
By Lynn O. Scott
James Baldwin’s Later Fiction examines the decline of Baldwin’s popularity after the center Nineteen Sixties, his tepid reception in mainstream and educational venues, and the ways that critics have frequently mis-represented and undervalued his paintings. Scott develops readings of Tell Me How lengthy the Train’s Been long gone, If Beale highway may Talk, and Just Above My Head that discover the interconnected issues in Baldwin’s paintings: the function of the kinfolk in maintaining the humanities, the cost of luck in American society, and the fight of black artists to alter the ways in which race, intercourse, and masculinity are represented in American culture.
Scott argues that Baldwin’s later writing crosses the cultural divide among the Fifties and Sixties according to the civil rights and black strength routine. Baldwin’s prior works, his political activism and sexual politics, and traditions of African American autobiography and fiction all play fashionable roles in Scott’s analysis.
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