Uses an expansive definition and thorough analysis of the social force that oppressed James Baldwin throughout his life--namely, the law--to provide the first thematic study to analyze the complete scope of his work.
James Baldwin, one of the major African American writers of the twentieth century, has been the subject of a substantial body of literary criticism. As a prolific and experimental author with a marginal perspective--a black man during segregation and the Civil Rights era, a homosexual...