Of Latitudes Unknown: James Baldwin's Radical Imagination by Craven, Alice Mikal

Of Latitudes Unknown: James Baldwin's Radical Imagination (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781501367571)

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Of Latitudes Unknown: James Baldwin's Radical Imagination by Craven, Alice Mikal

Of Latitudes Unknown: James Baldwin's Radical Imagination

$44.95
Of Latitudes Unknown: James Baldwin's Radical Imagination by Craven, Alice Mikal

Of Latitudes Unknown: James Baldwin's Radical Imagination

$44.95
Format: Paperback
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Of Latitudes Unknownis a multi-faceted study of James Baldwin's radical imagination. It is a selective and thoughtful survey that re-investigates the grounds of Baldwin studies and provides new critical approaches, subjects, and orientations for Baldwin criticism.

This volume joins recent critical collections in "un-fragmenting" Baldwin and establishing further conjunctions in his work: the essay and the novel; the polemical and the aesthetic; his use of and participation in visual forms; and his American as well as international identities. But it goes beyond other recent studies by focusing on new entities of Baldwin's radical imagination: his English and French language selves; his late encounters with Africa; his appearances on French television and interviews with French journalists; and his unrecognized literary journalism. Of Latitudes Unknown also addresses Baldwin's relations with the Arab world, his anticipation of contemporary film and media studies, and his paradoxical public intellectualism.

As it reassesses Baldwin's contributions to and influences on world literary history, Of Latitudes Unknownequally explores why the critical appreciation of Baldwin's writing continues to flourish, and why it remains a vast territory whose parts lie open to much deeper exploration and elaboration.

Author: Alice Mikal Craven
ISBN-10: 1501367579
ISBN-13: 9781501367571
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 08/20/2020
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.57d
By Alice Mikal Craven
By Alice Mikal Craven
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Alice Mikal Craven is Professor of Comparative Literature at the American University of Paris, France, and Chair of Film Studies. She is co-editor of Richard Wright: New Readings in the 21st Century (2011) and Richard Wright in a Post-Racial Imaginary (Bloomsbury, 2014). She is author of Visible and Invisible Whiteness: American White Supremacy through the Cinematic Lens (2018).

William E. Dow is Professor of American Literature at the Université Paris-Est (UPEM), France, and Professor of English at the American University of Paris, France. He is the author of Narrating Class in American Fiction (2009) and co-editor of Richard Wright: New Readings in the 21st Century (2011) and Richard Wright in a Post-Racial Imaginary (Bloomsbury, 2014).

Yoko Nakamura is a Ph.D. candidate in Interdisciplinary Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Iowa, USA.

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