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

• Introductions1 Hic Sunt Dracones: An Editorial Preface on the American Conundrum – Justin A. Joyce2 “A new sense of life’s possibilities”: European Baldwins – Remo Verdickt, Pieter Vermeulen, and Gianna ZoccoFeature Essay3 Each of Us Contains the Other: My Lives with James Baldwin – Magdalena ZaborowskaEssays4 The New German Baldwin and His Company. A Comparative Study of the Paratexts in Dtv’s edition of James Baldwin – Gianna Zocco5 Baldwin’s European Digital Circulation: More Tweets of a Native Son – Remo Verdickt and Jonathan Hoebeke6 Baldwin in Spain: Reception, Censorship, and Political (Mis)appropriations – Jordi Cornellà Detrell7 Confessions of Bad Faith: Giovanni’s Room as James Baldwin’s Response to European Existentialism – Sonja Pyykkö8 Baldwin’s Postcolonial Turn: Black Families from Moynihan to No Name in the Street – Gerald NaughtonGraduate Student Essay Award Winner9 It’s Not All Black and White: Dutch Translations of The Fire Next Time – Katinka ZevenInterviews10 Witness to a World in Crisis: An Interview with René Aguigah – Remo Verdickt11 “I was a Witness”: An Interview with Jack Hazan – John Livesey12 “Translating is Also a Way of Doing Justice”: A Survey of Baldwin’s European Translators – Remo VerdicktFrom the Field13 James Baldwin and Britain: Emerging Insights – Isabel TaubeDispatches14 Closets Foreign and Familiar: Giovanni’s Room at the International Theater of Amsterdam – Monica B. Pearl 15 To Resonate Still: A Letter to James Baldwin – Yousra Benfquih16 In the Family: Sonic Black Queer Genealogies and No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin – Rebecca Wanzo17 Exhibition Review: “This Morning, This Evening, So Soon: James Baldwin and the Voices of Queer Resistance” – Monika Gehlawat Bibliographic Essay18 Baldwin’s Reception in France in the Twenty-First Century: Publishing Flurry and Political Relevance – Claudine Raynaud