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Book

Nobody knows my name : more notes of a native son

Call Number

  • 305.896 B1816.3 (CEN)

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Edition

First Vintage International edition

Publication Information

New York : Vintage Books, 1993.

Physical Description

xiv, 241 pages ; 21 cm

Summary

Provides a collection of Baldwin's essays on topics ranging from race relations in the United States--including an attack on William Faulkner for this ambivalent views about the segregated South--to the role of the writer in society, with personal accounts of such writers as Richard Wright and Norman Mailer. --From publisher description

Notes

Originally published: New York : Dial Press, 1961.

Contents

  • Part one. Sitting in the house. The discovery of what it means to be an American
  • Princes and powers
  • Fifth Avenue, uptown: a letter from Harlem
  • East River, downtown: Postscript to a letter from Harlem
  • A fly in the buttermilk
  • Nobody knows my name: A letter from the South
  • Faulkner and desegregation
  • In search of a majority.
  • Part two. With everything on my mind. Notes for a hypothetical novel
  • The male prison
  • The Northern Protestant
  • Alas, poor Richard
  • The black boy looks at the white boy.

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