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Author : James Baldwin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783125765009
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (65 download)
Download or read book SONNY S BLUES written by James Baldwin and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Baldwin
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0804149755
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Going to Meet the Man written by James Baldwin and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major collection of short stories by one of America’s most important writers—informed by the knowledge the wounds racism leaves in both its victims and its perpetrators. • “If Van Gogh was our 19th-century artist-saint, James Baldwin is our 20th-century one.” —Michael Ondaatje, Booker Prize-winner of The English Patient In this modern classic, "there's no way not to suffer. But you try all kinds of ways to keep from drowning in it." The men and women in these eight short fictions grasp this truth on an elemental level, and their stories detail the ingenious and often desperate ways in which they try to keep their head above water. It may be the heroin that a down-and-out jazz pianist uses to face the terror of pouring his life into an inanimate instrument. It may be the brittle piety of a father who can never forgive his son for his illegitimacy. Or it may be the screen of bigotry that a redneck deputy has raised to blunt the awful childhood memory of the day his parents took him to watch a black man being murdered by a gleeful mob. By turns haunting, heartbreaking, and horrifying, Going to Meet the Man is a major work by one of our most important writers.
Author : Sascha Feinstein
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253221374
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (532 download)
Download or read book The Jazz Fiction Anthology written by Sascha Feinstein and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2009-10-02 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What sounds throughout these stories is the universal voice of humanity that is the essence of the music.
Author : James Baldwin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780146000133
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Sonny's Blues written by James Baldwin and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Conseula Francis
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1571133259
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (711 download)
Download or read book The Critical Reception of James Baldwin, 1963-2010 written by Conseula Francis and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2014 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the major divisions in criticism of this major African American writer, paying particular attention to the way each critical period defines Baldwin and his work for its own purposes.
Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN 13 : 1410337278
Total Pages : 15 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (13 download)
Download or read book A Study Guide to James Baldwin 's Sonny's Blues written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Study Guide to James Baldwin 's Sonny's Blues, excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students series. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
Author : Aileen M. Carroll
Publisher : Walch Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780825114977
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (149 download)
Download or read book 150 Great Short Stories written by Aileen M. Carroll and published by Walch Publishing. This book was released on 1989 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saves time in preparing team activities and assessments Includes story synopsis, teaching suggestions, quiz, and answer key Note: The short stories are not included in this publication.
Author : Keith Clark
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252054121
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Black Manhood in James Baldwin, Ernest J. Gaines, and August Wilson written by Keith Clark and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2022-08-15 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging the standard portrayals of Black men in African American literature From Frederick Douglass to the present, the preoccupation of black writers with manhood and masculinity is a constant. Black Manhood in James Baldwin, Ernest J. Gaines, and August Wilson explores how in their own work three major African American writers contest classic portrayals of black men in earlier literature, from slave narratives through the great novels of Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison. Keith Clark examines short stories, novels, and plays by Baldwin, Gaines, and Wilson, arguing that since the 1950s the three have interrupted and radically dismantled the constricting literary depictions of black men who equate selfhood with victimization, isolation, and patriarchy. Instead, they have reimagined black men whose identity is grounded in community, camaraderie, and intimacy. Delivering original and startling insights, this book will appeal to scholars and students of African American literature, gender studies, and narratology.
Author : Barry Wittenstein
Publisher : Charlesbridge Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1580898815
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (88 download)
Download or read book Sonny's Bridge written by Barry Wittenstein and published by Charlesbridge Publishing. This book was released on 2019-05-21 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groovy, bebopping picture book biography chronicles the legendary jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins's search for inspiration on the Williamsburg Bridge after quitting the jazz scene in 1959. Rollins is one of the most prolific sax players in the history of jazz, but, in 1959, at the height of his career, he vanished from the jazz scene. His return to music was an interesting journey--with a long detour on the Williamsburg Bridge. Too loud to practice in his apartment, Rollins played on the New York City landmark for two years among the cacophony of traffic and the stares of bystanders, leading to the release of his album, The Bridge. Written in rhythmic prose with a bebop edge, this picture-book biography of Sonny Rollins's journey to get his groove back will delight young and old fans alike.
Author : Carmen Boullosa
Publisher : Deep Vellum Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1941920004
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (419 download)
Download or read book Texas written by Carmen Boullosa and published by Deep Vellum Publishing. This book was released on 2014-12-02 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historical examination of tension and conflict on the Texas-Mexico border, told from the Mexican perspective, that's especially relevant today.
Author : Aja Gabel
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735214778
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (352 download)
Download or read book The Ensemble written by Aja Gabel and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-06-25 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Pitch-perfect." —People "You won’t be able to quit these characters." —goop The addictive novel about four young friends navigating the cutthroat world of classical music and their complex relationships with each other, as ambition, passion, and love intertwine over the course of their lives. Jana. Brit. Daniel. Henry. They would never have been friends if they hadn't needed each other. They would never have found each other except for the art which drew them together. They would never have become family without their love for the music, for each other. Brit is the second violinist, a beautiful and quiet orphan; on the viola is Henry, a prodigy who's always had it easy; the cellist is Daniel, the oldest and an angry skeptic who sleeps around; and on first violin is Jana, their flinty, resilient leader. Together, they are the Van Ness Quartet. After the group's youthful, rocky start, they experience devastating failure and wild success, heartbreak and marriage, triumph and loss, betrayal and enduring loyalty. They are always tied to each other - by career, by the intensity of their art, by the secrets they carry, by choosing each other over and over again. Following these four unforgettable characters, Aja Gabel's debut novel gives a riveting look into the high-stakes, cutthroat world of musicians, and of lives made in concert. The story of Brit and Henry and Daniel and Jana, The Ensemble is a heart-skipping portrait of ambition, friendship, and the tenderness of youth.
Author : A. Yemisi Jimoh
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 9781572331723
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (317 download)
Download or read book Spiritual, Blues, and Jazz People in African American Fiction written by A. Yemisi Jimoh and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jimoh (English, U. of Arkansas-Fayetteville) investigates African American intracultural issues that inform a more broadly intertextual use of music in creating characters and themes in fiction by US black writers. Conventional close readings of texts, she argues, often miss historical-sociopolitical discourses that can illuminate African American narratives. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Hedda Ben-Bassat
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838754337
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (543 download)
Download or read book Prophets Without Vision written by Hedda Ben-Bassat and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ben-Bassat (English, Tel Aviv U.) discusses crises of ideology and identity in the fiction of contemporary American authors. She contends that the fiction of John Updike, Flannery O'Connor, Grace Paley, James Baldwin, and Alice Walker has absorbed a diversity of prophetic modes from a diversity of
Author : Michael Garland
Publisher : Tilbury House Publishers and Cadent Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0884485900
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (844 download)
Download or read book Daddy Played the Blues written by Michael Garland and published by Tilbury House Publishers and Cadent Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-11 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Notable Social Studies Trade Books Selection for Young People 2018* “I was six years old the day we left the farm in Mississippi,” remembers Cassie in this richly textured picture book. “Between the boll weevils, the floods, and the landlord, there was no way a family could scratch out a living there anymore.” Packing themselves into an old jalopy—with Daddy, Uncle Vern, and Mama in the front seat and Cassie and her two brothers in the back—they joined the Great Migration from the impoverished Deep South to Chicago, where there was work to be had in the stockyards. Across the kids’ laps lay Daddy’s prized possession, a six-string guitar. Daddy worked hard to put food on the table, but what he really loved was playing the blues. This evocative tale of the African-American odyssey in search of a better life is also a homage to the uniquely American music that developed from African music and American spirituals, work songs, and folk ballads. In the book’s backmatter, Garland relates how he first heard and fell in love with blues music, beginning a lifelong fandom. Portraits and thumbnail biographies of great blues musicians and landmark songs complete this tribute to the great American music and the yearnings that produced it. Fountas & Pinnell Level S
Author : Craig Hansen Werner
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252066412
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (664 download)
Download or read book Playing the Changes written by Craig Hansen Werner and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A final sequence highlights the centrality of black music to African American writing, arguing that recognizing blues, gospel, and jazz as theoretically suggestive cultural practices rather than specific musical forms points to what is most distinctive in twentieth-century African American writing: its ability to subvert attempts to limit its engagement with psychological, historical, political, or aesthetic realities.
Author : Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195092622
Total Pages : 788 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (926 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Book of American Short Stories written by Joyce Carol Oates and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1992 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a survey of American short fiction in 59 tales that combine classic works with 'different, unexpected gems', which invite readers to explore a wealth of important pieces by women and minority writers. Authors include: Amy Tan, Alice Adams, David Leavitt and Tim O'Brien.
Author : James Baldwin
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1400033942
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 ( download)
Download or read book Vintage Baldwin written by James Baldwin and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2004-01-06 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his internationally acclaimed novels, short stories, plays and essays, James Baldwin was and remains a powerfully prophetic voice in the American literary landscape, fearlessly brooding upon issues such as race, sex, politics, and art. His literary achievement is a lasting legacy about what it means to be American. Vintage Baldwin includes the short story “Sonny’s Blues”; the galvanizing civil rights examination “My Dungeon Shook: Letter to My Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Emancipation”; the essays “Fifth Avenue, Uptown: A Letter from Harlem,” “The Discovery of What It Means to Be an American,” and “Nobody Knows My Name: A Letter from the South”; and excerpts from the novel Another Country and the play The Amen Corner. Vintage Readers are a perfect introduction to some of the great modern writers presented in attractive, accessible paperback editions.
