What “No Chart Can Tell Us”: Ordinary Intimacies in Emerson, Du Bois, and Baldwin

This essay reads James Baldwin in conversation with two unexpected interlocutors from the American nineteenth and twentieth centuries: Ralph Waldo Emerson and W. E. B. Du Bois. What draws these historically distant and intellectually different thinkers together, their differences making their conver...

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Main Author: Prentiss Clark
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Manchester University Press 2019-09-01
Series:James Baldwin Review
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