New Essays on Go Tell It on the Mountain (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521495042)

James Baldwin's first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain, has gained a wide readership and much critical acclaim since its publication in 1953. While most critics have seen it as focusing exclusively on the African-American fundamentalist church and its effect on characters brought up within its tradition, these scholars posit that issues of homosexuality, the social construction of identity, anthropological conceptions of community, and the quest for an artistic identity provide more elucidating approaches to the novel.

Author: Trudier Harris
ISBN-10: 0521495040
ISBN-13: 9780521495042
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/26/1996
Pages: 172
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.77h x 5.85w x 0.76d