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S'està carregant… Notes of a Native Son (1955 original; edició 1955)de James Baldwin
Informació de l'obraNotes of a Native Son de James Baldwin (1955)
   No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. https://www.audible.com/pd/Notes-of-a-Native-Son-Audiobook/B00SK5P8KO?ref=a_libr...  tinkerv | Jul 4, 2022 |  Hard to read but essential Baldwin is most relatable when he writes about his personal experiences in France, but every essay in this book is important. (  ) nbornstein | Mar 5, 2022 | At times Baldwin offers a visceral sense of the rage that vast injustice of American culture has sown in its adamant racism. At times he entertains with his criticisms of Native Son and Carmen Jones. And he enthralls with his description of his arrest and the several days he spent in Paris jails. This is more an ad hoc assembly that a targeted collection, but the messages lack only details of being as accurate today as they were when he first penned them. (  ) quondame | Feb 27, 2022 | I have to start off by saying Notes of a Native Son was way too short. I felt that Baldwin could have kept writing and writing. His essays held such clarity and truth they could have been written last year, last month, or even last week. Ranging from an analytical commentary of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin to remembering the time he was jailed in Paris for allegedly stealing a bedsheet, Baldwin expresses his place in society with the utmost frankness. The most tender of moments came when writing about his father, a man with which he had a complicated relationship. (  ) SeriousGrace | Nov 19, 2021 | Painful truths. Elizabeth80 | Sep 15, 2021 |
James Baldwin writes down to nobody, and he is trying very hard to write up to himself. As an essayist he is thought-provoking, tantalizing, irritating, abusing and amusing. And he uses words as the sea uses waves, to flow and beat, advance and retreat, rise and take a bow in disappearing. ... Few American writers handle words more effectively in the essay form than James Baldwin. To my way of thinking, he is much better at provoking thought in the essay than he is arousing emotion in fiction. I much prefer "Notes of a Native Son" to his novel, "Go Tell It on the Mountain," where the surface excellence and poetry of his writing did not seem to me to suit the earthiness of his subject matter. In his essays, words and material suit each other. The thought becomes poetry, and the poetry illuminates the thought. The collected "pieces" of the author of Go Tell It on the Mountain form a compelling unit as he applies the high drama of poetry and sociology to a penetrating analysis of the Negro experience on the American and European scene. ... The expression of so many insights enriches rather than clarifies, and behind every page stalks a man, an everyman, seeking his identity...and ours. Exceptional writing. Contingut aContéTé la seqüela (sense pertànyer a cap sèrie)Abreujat aTé una guia d'estudi per a estudiants
Originally published in 1955, James Baldwin's first nonfiction book has become a classic. These searing essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and Americans abroad remain as powerful today as when they were written. "He named for me the things you feel but couldn't utter. . . . Jimmy's essays articulated for the first time to white America what it meant to be American and a black American at the same time." No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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 Google Books — S'està carregant…GèneresClassificació Decimal de Dewey (DDC)305.896073 — Social sciences Social Sciences Groups of people Ethnic and national groups ; racism, multiculturalism Other Groups African Origin North America African AmericansLCC (Clas. Bibl. Congrés EUA)ValoracióMitjana: (4.16)
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