Eddie S. Glaude Jr. Begin Again recensie en informatie over de inhoud van dit boek over schrijver James Baldwin. Op 2o juli 2020 verschijnt bij Uitgeverij Crown Publising dit non-fictie boek van de Afro-Amerikaanse professor en schrijver Eddie S. Glaude Jr.. Er is nog geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.
Eddie S. Glaude Jr. Begin Again Recensie en Informatie
Als de redactie het boek leest, kun je op deze pagina de recensie en waardering vinden van de roman Begin Again, James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own. Het boek is geschreven door Eddie S. Glaude Jr. Daarnaast zijn hier gegevens van de uitgave en bestelmogelijkheden opgenomen. Bovendien kun je op deze pagina informatie lezen over de inhoud van dit boek van de Amerikaanse professor en schrijver Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
Begin Again
James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own
- Schrijver: Eddie S. Glaude Jr.(Verenigde Staten)
- Soort boek: non-fictie
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: Crown Publishing
- Verschijnt: 20 juli 2020
- Omvang: 288 pagina’s
- Uitgave: Gebonden Boek / Ebook
Flaptekst van het boek over James Baldwin van Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
We live, according to Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., in the after times, when the promise of Black Lives Matter and the attempt to achieve a new America were challenged by the election of Donald Trump, a racist president whose victory represents yet another failure of America to face the lies it tells itself about race.
We have been here before: For James Baldwin, the after times came in the wake of the Civil Rights movement, when a similar attempt to compel a national confrontation with the truth was answered with the murders of Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, Jr. In these years, spanning from the publication of The Fire Next Time in 1963 to that of No Name in the Street in 1972, Baldwin was transformed into a more overtly political writer, a change that came at great professional and personal cost. But from that journey, Baldwin emerged with a sense of renewed purpose about the necessity of pushing forward in the face of disillusionment and despair.
In the story of Baldwin’s crucible, Glaude suggests, we can find hope and guidance through our own after times, this Trumpian era of shattered promises and white retrenchment. Mixing biography–drawn partially from newly uncovered interviews–with history, memoir, and trenchant analysis of our current moment, Begin Again is Glaude’s attempt, following Baldwin, to bear witness to the difficult truth of race in America today. It is at once a searing exploration that lays bare the tangled web of race, trauma, and memory, and a powerful interrogation of what we all must ask of ourselves in order to call forth a new America.
