· 2021
The Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction: 1948–1985
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This collection gathers nearly fifty years of James Baldwin's powerful nonfiction, offering profound insights into race and identity in the United States.
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- Collects nearly fifty years of James Baldwin's nonfiction writing from 1948 to 1985.
- Includes full texts of major works: Notes of a Native Son, Nobody Knows My Name, The Fire Next Time, No Name in the Street, and The Devil Finds Work.
- Features dozens of other pieces, from early reviews to a new introduction.
- Explores themes of race, identity, and social interaction in the United States.
- Combines intensely private experience with deep examination of social dynamics.
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Abstract
works of James Baldwin constitute one of the major contributions American literature in the twentieth century, nowhere this more evident than in The Price of the Ticket, a compendium of nearly fifty years of Baldwin's powerful nonfiction writing. With truth insight, these personal, prophetic works speak the heart of the experience of race identity in the United States. Here are the full texts of Notes of a Native Son, Nobody Knows My Name, Fire Next Time, No Name in the Street, and The Devil Finds Work, along with dozens of other pieces, ranging from a 1948 review of Raintree Country to a magnificent introduction this book that, as so many of Mr. Baldwin's works do, combines his intensely private experience with the deepest examination of social interaction between the races. In a way, The Price of the Ticket is an intellectual history of the twentieth-century American experience; in another, it autobiography of the highest order.
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Field: Literature and Literary Theory
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