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10 de dic. de 2009 · Just above my head by Baldwin, James, 1924-1987. Publication date 1979 Topics African American men, Brothers Publisher New York : Dial Press Collection
Just Above My Head is divided into five books. The first opens when Hall Montana receives word that his younger brother, thirty-nine-year-old Arthur Montana, a renowned gospel singer, has died ...
1 de sept. de 1997 · Abstract. The work of James Baldwin has suffered from much critical misunderstanding due largely to critics' dualistlic approach, which sets political concerns against spiritual ones, emphasizes only the former in Baldwin's work, and misses his complex examination of individual experience and responsibility. Rather than a dichotomous thinker ...
James Baldwin's final novel is "the work of a born storyteller at the height of his powers" (The New York Times Book Review). "Not everything is lost. Responsibility cannot be lost, it can only be abdicated. If one refuses abdication, one begins again." The stark grief of a brother mourning a brother opens this stunning, unforgettable novel. Here, in a monumental saga of love and rage, James ...
Other articles where Just Above My Head is discussed: James Baldwin: Later career and honors: …Street Could Talk (1974), and Just Above My Head (1979) as well as a collection of autobiographical writings, The Price of the Ticket (1985). Yet none of his later works achieved the popular and critical success of his early work, and he struggled to drum up publishers’ interest in some…
His later works include the novels Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone (1968), If Beale Street Could Talk (1973) and Just Above My Head (1979). James Baldwin won a number of literary fellowships: a Eugene F. Saxon Memorial Trust Award, a Rosenwald Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Partisan Review Fellowship and a Ford Foundation grant.
Just Above My Head Quotes Showing 1-20 of 20. “I prefer sinners and madmen, who can learn, who can change, who can teach-or people like myself, if I may say so, who are not afraid to eat a lobster alone as they take on their shoulders the monumental weight of thirty years”. ― James Baldwin, Just Above My Head. 59 likes.
