James Baldwin's 'Go Tell It on the Mountain'

The publication of James Baldwin's Go Tell It on the Mountain ushered in a new age of the urban telling of a tale twice told yet rarely expressed in such vivid portraits. Go Tell It unveils the struggle of man with his God and that of man with himself. Baldwin's intense scrutiny of the spiritual and communal customs that serve as moral centers of the black community directs attention to the striking incongruities of religious fundamentalism and oppression. This book examines these multiple impulses, challenging the widely held convention that politics and religion do not mix.

Autorentext

The Editor: Carol E. Henderson is Associate Professor of African American and American Literatures at the University of Delaware, Newark. She received her Ph.D. in American literature from the University of California, Riverside. In addition to numerous articles in professional journals, and essays in two critical volumes on novelist Ann Petry, she is the author of Scarring the Black Body: Race and Representation in African American Literature (2002) and the recipient of several professional and research awards.

Zusammenfassung
"Carol E. Henderson has gathered an impressive collection of essays written by scholars on two continents who celebrate the publication of Baldwin's landmark novel. These essays, some written by scholars who represent the next generation of literary critics, give new interpretations of this novel and challenge the literary community to re-frame the discourse about this magnificent work and to reconsider its assessment of Baldwin as author and social critic." (Burney Hollis, Dean of Arts and Science, Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland)

Inhalt
Contents: Carol E. Henderson: Foreword Carol E. Henderson: Introduction. Reconciling the Spirit: The Father, the Son, and Go Tell It on the Mountain Brian J. Norman: Duplicity, Purity, and Politicized Morality: Go Tell It on the Mountain and the Emergence of the Civil Rights Movement William J. Spurlin: Go Tell It on the Mountain and Cold War Tropes of National Belonging: Homoerotic Desire and the Redeployment of Betrayal under Black Nationalism Babacar M'Baye: African Retentions in Go Tell It on the Mountain Casba Csapó: Race, Religion and Sexuality in Go Tell It on the Mountain Margo Natalie Crawford: The Reclamation of the Homoerotic as Spiritual in Go Tell It on the Mountain Carol E. Henderson: Betwixt and Between the Cross: The «Eve» Complex in Baldwin's Go Tell It on the Mountain Jermaine Singleton: Sacred and Silent (Man)ufacturing: Melancholy, Race and the Gendered Politics of Testifying in James Baldwin's Go Tell It on the Mountain Sherry R. Truffin: 'Terrors of the Night': Salvation, Gender, and the Gothic in Go Tell It on the Mountain Carol E. Henderson: Layed Bare: The Filmic Representation of Go Tell It on the Mountain Carol E. Henderson: Afterword. James Baldwin Now: Selected Bibliography of Scholarship and Criticism on Baldwin's Go Tell It on the Mountain.