Baptism by History: Reading James Baldwin’s Existential Hindsight in Go Tell It on the Mountain
This essay reads James Baldwin’s first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain, through the lenses of European existentialism and Black existential thought to arrive at a new understanding of the novel itself as well as essential stages of its development. Archival sources and close reading reveal Baldwin...
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Manchester University Press
2020-09-01
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| Series: | James Baldwin Review |
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