Book
Nobody knows my name : more notes of a native son
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
- 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.
- 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.