So Unimaginable a Price: Baldwin and the Black Atlantic

So Unimaginable a Price

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So Unimaginable a Price: Baldwin and the Black Atlantic

So Unimaginable a Price

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Rereading Baldwin's nonfiction in the context of midcentury Black Atlantic thought

James Baldwin's nonfiction offers some of the most important and challenging thinking on the experience of race, history, and memory in the Black Atlantic world. Yet much of the scholarly literature on Baldwin's writing reads his work from inside the sociocultural context of the United States, alongside key interlocutors like Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, and Lorraine Hansberry. So Unimaginable a Price: Baldwin and the Black Atlantic shifts the critical frame, examining Baldwin's work as part of a midcentury moment across the wider Atlantic world and tying his reflections to those of thinkers in the Caribbean and Africa to underscore the widening sense, as well as the particularity, of his critical claims. Who is Baldwin to the Atlantic world? And who, then, is Baldwin to the United States? John E. Drabinski recasts Baldwin as a Black Atlantic writer whose unique qualities as a thinker are enhanced by their similarities and differences with fellow writers of liberation in the global Black world.

Book Details

ISBN
9780810149557
Binding
Paperback
Authors
John E Drabinski
Publisher
Northwestern University Press
Published Date
December 15, 2025
Language
English
Pages
216
Physical Info
0.53 in H x 8.96 in L x 6.17 in W (0.7 lb)

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