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Notes of a Native Son is a collection of ten essays by James Baldwin, published in 1955, mostly tackling issues of race in America and Europe. The volume, as his first non-fiction book, compiles essays of Baldwin that had previously appeared in such magazines as Harper's Magazine , Partisan Review , and The New Leader .
- James Baldwin
- 1955
LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in Notes of a Native Son, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work. Inheritance, Tradition, and Belonging Language, Narrative, and Truth
Written during the 1940s and early 1950s, when Baldwin was only in his twenties, the essays collected in Notes of a Native Son capture a view of black life and black thought at the dawn of the civil rights movement and as the movement slowly gained strength through the words of one of the most captivating essayists and foremost intellectuals of ...
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Notes of a Native Son is one of the most important works in the genre of African-American autobiographical criticism, which began with slave narratives in the 18th and 19th century and includes texts such as W.E.B. Du Bois’ The Souls of Black Folk, Malcolm X and Alex Haley’s Autobiography of Malcolm X, Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged ...
Notes of a Native Son. James Baldwin. 4.37. 20,885 ratings1,543 reviews. Since its original publication in 1955, this first nonfiction collection of essays by James Baldwin remains an American classic.
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20 de nov. de 2012 · Notes is the book that established Baldwin’s voice as a social critic, and it remains one of his most admired works. The essays collected here create a cohesive sketch of black America and reveal...
