James Baldwin: Living in Fire: Revolutionary Lives
Autor Bill V. Mullenen Limba Engleză Hardback – 19 sep 2019
"A scrupulous biography."―Publishers Weekly
"A fresh, incisive, and uplifting biography."―Kirkus
Bill Mullen celebrates the personal and political life of the great American writer who refused to shy away from controversary and hate and created some of the most important literary work of his time, including the novels Go Tell it to the Mountain, If Beale Street Could talk, Another Country, and Just Above My Head. It is essential reading for anyone who wants to truly understand this towering literary and political figure and everyone who understand that imperialism and racism are as dangerous today as in Baldwin’s time.
As a lifelong radical, anti-imperialist, black queer advocate, feminist and pro-Palestinian, the life and writing of James Baldwin (1924-1987) has been an inspiration to generations and his words continue to resonate through our culture at large. Mullen explores how Baldwin's life and work channel the long history of the African American. Fighting towards what he hoped would be a post-racial society, Baldwin's philosophy was tragically ahead of its time. Table of Contents:
Preface: James Baldwin—A Revolutionary for Our Time
1.Baptism by Fire: Childhood and Youth, 1924-42
2.Dissidence, Disillusionment, Resistance: 1942-48
3.Political Exile and Survival: 1948-57
4.Paying His Dues: 1957-63
5.Baldwin and Black Power: 19963-68
6.Morbid Symptoms and Optimism of the Will: 1968-79
7.Final Acts
Postscript: Baldwin’s Queer Legacies
Mullen writes in his Preface, “Baldwin developed a capacious, revolutionary theory and proactive of lived resistance to capitalism, imperialism, and oppression fueled by a lifetime of study, engagement, and creative tension with the most dissident pollical political movements in the US and around the world. In 1961, at the age of 37, Baldwin name this dissidence ‘revolution’…’
As racist and reactionary forces rise across the world, this is an essential guide to the life and legacy of one of America's most important radical voices.
"A fresh, incisive, and uplifting biography."―Kirkus
Bill Mullen celebrates the personal and political life of the great American writer who refused to shy away from controversary and hate and created some of the most important literary work of his time, including the novels Go Tell it to the Mountain, If Beale Street Could talk, Another Country, and Just Above My Head. It is essential reading for anyone who wants to truly understand this towering literary and political figure and everyone who understand that imperialism and racism are as dangerous today as in Baldwin’s time.
As a lifelong radical, anti-imperialist, black queer advocate, feminist and pro-Palestinian, the life and writing of James Baldwin (1924-1987) has been an inspiration to generations and his words continue to resonate through our culture at large. Mullen explores how Baldwin's life and work channel the long history of the African American. Fighting towards what he hoped would be a post-racial society, Baldwin's philosophy was tragically ahead of its time. Table of Contents:
Preface: James Baldwin—A Revolutionary for Our Time
1.Baptism by Fire: Childhood and Youth, 1924-42
2.Dissidence, Disillusionment, Resistance: 1942-48
3.Political Exile and Survival: 1948-57
4.Paying His Dues: 1957-63
5.Baldwin and Black Power: 19963-68
6.Morbid Symptoms and Optimism of the Will: 1968-79
7.Final Acts
Postscript: Baldwin’s Queer Legacies
Mullen writes in his Preface, “Baldwin developed a capacious, revolutionary theory and proactive of lived resistance to capitalism, imperialism, and oppression fueled by a lifetime of study, engagement, and creative tension with the most dissident pollical political movements in the US and around the world. In 1961, at the age of 37, Baldwin name this dissidence ‘revolution’…’
As racist and reactionary forces rise across the world, this is an essential guide to the life and legacy of one of America's most important radical voices.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780745338545
ISBN-10: 0745338542
Pagini: 256
Ilustrații: 16 b&w plates
Dimensiuni: 150 x 231 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: PLUTO PRESS
Colecția Pluto Press
Seria Revolutionary Lives
ISBN-10: 0745338542
Pagini: 256
Ilustrații: 16 b&w plates
Dimensiuni: 150 x 231 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: PLUTO PRESS
Colecția Pluto Press
Seria Revolutionary Lives
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Notă biografică
Bill V. Mullen is Professor of American Studies at Purdue University. He is co-editor with Ashley Dawson of Against Apartheid: The Case for Boycotting Israeli Universities (Haymarket, 2015). He is the author of W.E.B. Du Bois: Revolutionary Across the Color Line (Pluto Press, 2016).
Cuprins
1. Baptism by Fire: Childhood and Youth 1924-1942 2. Dissidence, Disillusionment, Disobedience: 1942-1948 3. Political Exile and Survival: 1948-1957 4. Paying His Dues: 1957-1963 5. Baldwin and Black Power 1963-1968 6. Morbid Symptoms and Optimism of the Wall 1968-1979 7. Final Acts, Death and Baldwin's Queer Legacies
Recenzii
Mullen gives us a fresh view of an iconic American literary and revolutionary figure, particularly when it comes to his solidarity with Palestine – a dangerous and unpopular position at the time – which underscores the depth of Baldwin's courage and moral fortitude. This book is an essential contribution to the body of literature examining James Baldwin's extraordinary life.
A scrupulous biography
Finally, Bill V. Mullen presents the James Baldwin we've been waiting for: the revolutionary, fierce internationalist, queer theorist, anti-imperialist, anti-Zionist, incisive dialectician, and perhaps the most dangerous thinker of the 20th century. If you want to know the real Baldwin, the uncompromising critic and visionary realist possessed of Fanonian optimism, Gramscian pessimism, and Lordean love, this is the book to read, the book we desperately need.
A truly fresh, exciting, comprehensive biography that richly appreciates Baldwin's profound relevance both historically and in this moment.
A fresh, incisive, and uplifting biography
An incisive, timely exposition of Baldwin's political and intellectual evolution. The historically grounded account of Baldwin's critical synthesis of the major strains of black radicalism that we have long needed.
An admirably tempered appraisal, in clear and sturdy prose, that will vivify for a new generation the strength and moral clarity of Baldwin and his writing.
Bill Mullen's biography of James Baldwin offers us a truly internationalist and radical reading of an author whose work is only today being fully appreciated for its ability to place America within its empire, and the black struggle at the fore of a global imperative to remake our societies. We need this urgent biography and we should be grateful Mullen's has delivered it. How politically transformative can love be? James Baldwin loved black people, and he offered this love amid the violence and hate and massive expropriation of black life as a demonstration under duress of what might be possible for all of us. It takes a radical sensibility like Bill Mullen's to draw out for us the revolutionary potential of such a love promised by Baldwin, but held in abeyance until we deserve to feel its wealth. This biography is a step on that road to radical love as a way of life.
James Baldwin: Living in Fire' is one of the most important publishing events of this political age. Lucidly and compellingly written, it updates and recontextualizes our knowledge of the complex, humane brilliance of Baldwin. It draws out Baldwin's importance not only for the ages, but most urgently for our present day. It is a book that angers, moves, and inspires. An indispensable weapon for any activist fighting today's ranging fires.
Descriere
In the first biography of James Baldwin in over a decade, Bill Mullen celebrates the personal and political life of the great American writer who refused to shy away from the fire. It is essential reading for anyone who wants to truly understand this towering literary and political figure and everyone who understand that imperialism and racism are as dangerous today as in Baldwin’s time.