James Baldwin Review

Douglas Field is Professor of Twentieth Century American Literature at the University of ManchesterJustin A. Joyce is Managing Editor of James Baldwin ReviewDwight A. McBride is Gerald Early Distinguished Professor of African & African American Studies at Washington University in St. Louis

• Introduction: Know Whence You Came – Justin A. Joyce Feature Essays Monster in the Archive – Robert F. Reid-Pharr Notes on Hotel Camp: Sontag Meets Baldwin in Giovanni’s Room – William J. Maxwell “The Confrontation”: James Baldwin’s Tour for CORE, May 1963 – Ed Pavlic JB in California, May 7, 1963 “These Things We Sort of Know”: Speech at U.C. Berkeley – James Baldwin A Conversation with James Baldwin, May 7, 1963 – Elsa Knight Thompson and John Leonard “The Level of a Confrontation”: Speech at San Francisco Masonic Temple – James Baldwin Essays James Baldwin’s Psychoanalysis – Dorothy Stringer Preaching Without a Pulpit: Toward a Womanist Hermeneutic of Regeneration in Just Above My Head – Melanie R. HillJames Baldwin’s Hypothetical Novel: “Ignorant Armies” and the Making of Another Country – Nicholas BredieGraduate Student Essay Award WinnerTranslating le vrai americain: Multilingualism in Henry James’s The Ambassadors and James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room – Jimin KangEulogiesA Brother’s Love – Maya AngelouJimmy! – Amiri BarakaRemembering James Baldwin – Ernest A. ChampionLife in His Language – Toni MorrisonJimmy in the House – William StyronRemembrances, Reflections, Inspirations81 Horatio Street: Jimmy was Here – Trevor BaldwinJames Baldwin: In Theory and Beyond – Lawrie BalfourPolitics – Nicholas BoggsWhat’s Coming on Down the Line! – Jennifer DeVere BrodyThe Great Force of History – Lonnie G. Bunch IIIJames Baldwin’s Reflection on Masculinity in America: Poetics of the Color Line – Frieda EkottoRunning toward Fear – Eddie S. Glaude, Jr.Finding Jimmy, Waiting for Giovanni – Jewelle GomezBecoming a Biographer of James Baldwin – David LeemingFounding the James Baldwin Collective – Samuel Legitimus“Extract” – Glenn LigonMy Honeysuckle Victory – David LinxSeeing James Baldwin through a Black Photographic Lens – Irma McClaurinThe End of Safety – Fahamu PecouAbsorbing Brilliance: Rediscovering Baldwin’s Essays – Lauren RuskOn Teaching Baldwin – William J. SpurlinEverybody Loves Jimmy Now – Rinaldo WalcottInterview“James Baldwin, Return of the Prophet”: An Interview – Cornel WestDispatchSedat Pakay’s Photographs of James Baldwin in Istanbul – Donald SpanelFrom the FieldCollected Roundtable Provocations on I Heard It Through the Grapevine“There Are No Signs”: I Heard It Through the Grapevine and Donald Glover’s Atlanta – Simon AbramowitschMovements Never Stay Still – Douglas FieldStyle in the Face of Sorrow – Monika GehlawatI Heard It Through the Grapevine: The Language of the Streets, Blues Literature, and the Church: Commentary on James Baldwin’s 1982 film – Melanie R. HillThe Dirge and the Second Line: A Meditation on Grapevine and Eyes Inspired by “Old Lem” – Josslyn J. LuckettNot a Sociologist: James Baldwin’s Evolving Role in the Early 1980s – D. Quentin MillerYouth, Violence, and Queer Futurity in I Heard It Through the Grapevine – Jared O’ConnorOn the Road with Baldwin – Hayley O’MalleyDemons be Damned! – Robert F. Reid-PharrTheir Whole World in Our Hands: Baldwin’s Responsibility to Children – J. Kenneth StuckeyOf the Sorrow Songs: Baldwin, Vérité, Hope – Karen ThorsenBibliographic Essay James Baldwin in the USSR and Post-Soviet Countries, 1970s–2010s – Yuri StulovArchival Sources OverviewBaldwin Archival Repositories