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Pages. 165. Notes of a Native Son is a collection of ten essays by James Baldwin, published in 1955, mostly tackling issues of race in America and Europe. The volume, as his first non-fiction book, compiles essays of Baldwin that had previously appeared in such magazines as Harper's Magazine, Partisan Review, and The New Leader. [2]
- James Baldwin
- 1955
Traveling with Baldwin through Notes’ “The Harlem Ghetto,” “Journey to Atlanta,” and “Notes of a Native Son,” I was given a grander portrait of the man I had known only through fiction. His fiction certainly had an unprecedented and absolute life of its own, and I might have tried to
Analysis. Baldwin’s father died in 1943, a few hours before his last child was born. After his father’s funeral, which took place on Baldwin’s birthday, a race riot broke out in Harlem. This series of events seemed to have been designed to mock Baldwin’s lack of belief in the apocalypse, a distinct contrast to the beliefs of his father.
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About Notes of a Native Son. #26 on The Guardian’s list of 100 best nonfiction books of all time, the essays explore what it means to be Black in America In an age of Black Lives Matter, James Baldwin’s essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and African Americans abroad are as powerful today as when they were first written.
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James Baldwin. 4.37. 20,913 ratings1,544 reviews. Since its original publication in 1955, this first nonfiction collection of essays by James Baldwin remains an American classic. His impassioned essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and African Americans abroad are as powerful today as when they were first written. --back cover.
A collection of essays by Baldwin that explore his identity, heritage, and experiences as a black American. He critiques white culture, literature, and politics, and reflects on his relationship with his father, his family, and his community.
