{"product_id":"james-baldwin-collected-essays-loa-98-isbn-9781883011529","title":"James Baldwin: Collected Essays (LOA #98)","description":"\u003cb\u003eToni Morrison's definitive edition of James Baldwin's incomparable nonfiction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContains all the major essays collections in their entirety, plus 36 uncollected essays.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJames Baldwin was a uniquely prophetic voice in American letters. His brilliant and provocative essays made him the literary voice of the Civil Rights Era, and they continue to speak with powerful urgency to us today, whether in the swirling debate over the Black Lives Matter movement or in the words of Raoul Peck's documentary \"I Am Not Your Negro.\" Edited by Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, the Library of America's \u003ci\u003eCollected Essays \u003c\/i\u003eis the most comprehensive gathering of Baldwin's nonfiction ever published.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith burning passion and jabbing, epigrammatic wit, Baldwin fearlessly articulated issues of race and democracy and American identity in such famous essays as \"The Harlem Ghetto,\" \"Everybody's Protest Novel,\" \"Many Thousands Gone,\" and \"Stranger in the Village.\" Here are the complete texts of his early landmark collections, \u003ci\u003eNotes of a Native Son\u003c\/i\u003e (1955) and \u003ci\u003eNobody Knows My Name\u003c\/i\u003e (1961), which established him as an essential intellectual voice of his time, fusing in unique fashion the personal, the literary, and the political.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe classic \u003ci\u003eThe Fire Next Time\u003c\/i\u003e (1963), perhaps the most influential of his writings, is his most penetrating analysis of America's racial divide and an impassioned call to \"end the racial nightmare...and change the history of the world.\" The later volumes \u003ci\u003eNo Name in the Street\u003c\/i\u003e (1972) and \u003ci\u003eThe Devil Finds Work \u003c\/i\u003e(1976) chart his continuing response to the social and political turbulence of his era and include his remarkable works of film criticism. A further 36 essays—nine of them previously uncollected—include some of Baldwin's earliest published writings, as well as revealing later insights into the language of Shakespeare, the poetry of Langston Hughes, and the music of Earl Hines.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLIBRARY OF AMERICA \u003c\/b\u003eis an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.\"Baldwin's impassioned essays have been at least as influential as his novels in exposing the racial polarization of American society. This massive compilation reproduces in their entirety his early essay collections \u003ci\u003eNotes of a Native Son\u003c\/i\u003e (1955), \u003ci\u003eNobody Knows My Name\u003c\/i\u003e (1961), \u003ci\u003eThe Fire Next Time\u003c\/i\u003e (1963) as well as his later, less successful book-length essays: the pessimistic, doom-laden \u003ci\u003eNo Name in the Street\u003c\/i\u003e (1972) and \u003ci\u003eThe Devil Finds Work \u003c\/i\u003e(1976), a semi-autobiographical gloss on American movies. The book charts his trajectory from eloquent voice of the civil rights movement to disillusioned expatriate increasingly prone to grandiloquence and angry rhetoric. Also included is a miscellany of 36 articles, polemics and reviews, 26 of which were previously collected in \u003ci\u003eThe Price of the Ticke\u003c\/i\u003et (1985), published just two years before Baldwin's death from cancer in France at age 63. Novelist Morrison's editing of this omnibus, which includes a chronology and notes, should help rekindle interest in Baldwin, whose recurrent themes—the African American search for identity, the hypocrisy of white America, the urgent necessity for love—make his work timely and challenging. BOMC and Reader's Subscription selections.\" \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eWith the novel \u003ci\u003eGo Tell It on the Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e (1953), a distillation of his own experiences as a preacher’s son in 1930s Harlem, and the essay collection \u003ci\u003eNotes of a Native Son\u003c\/i\u003e (1955), \u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eJames Baldwin \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e(1924-1987) established himself as a prophetic voice of his era. Some such voices may grow fainter with the passage of time, but Baldwin remains an inescapable presence, not only a chronicler of his epoch but a thinker who helped shape it.\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eToni Morrison\u003c\/b\u003e, volume editor, is the author of a number of award-winning novels, including \u003ci\u003eLove\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eJazz\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBeloved\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSong of Solomon\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSula\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Bluest Eye\u003c\/i\u003e. 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