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For between Leo's childhood on the streets of Harlem and his arrival into the world of the theatre lies a wilderness of desire and loss, shame and rage. And everywhere there is the anguish of being black in a society that seems poised on the brink of racial war. In this tender, angry 1968 novel, James Baldwin created one of his most striking ...
17 de fev. de 1998 · And everywhere there is the anguish of being black in a society that at times seems poised on the brink of total racial war. Overpowering in its vitality, extravagant in the intensity of its feeling, Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone is a major work of American literature.
His later works include the novels Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone (1968), If Beale Street Could Talk (1973) and Just Above My Head (1979). James Baldwin won a number of literary fellowships: a Eugene F. Saxon Memorial Trust Award, a Rosenwald Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Partisan Review Fellowship and a Ford Foundation grant.
His inclusion of gay themes resulted in much savage criticism from the black community. Going to Meet the Man (1965) and Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone (1968) provided powerful descriptions of American racism. As an openly gay man, he became increasingly outspoken in condemning discrimination against lesbian and gay people.
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1 de out. de 1999 · Vancouver-Style Citation. Thompson, C. Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone. The Iowa Review. 1999 10; 29(2) :114–120.
Cite this page as follows: "Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone - Themes and Meanings." Comprehensive Guide to Short Stories, Critical Edition, edited by Charles E. May, eNotes.com, Inc., 2004 ...
TELL ME HOW LONG THE TRAIN'S BEEN GONE. by James Baldwin ‧ RELEASE DATE: June 3, 1968. Train's been gone some time. While Baldwin, over a past decade, has pixied into vascular self-contemplation, a new breed of lions has taken over the delineation of black identity, and this is obviously Baldwin struggling to find his place in line. The ...
