James Baldwin and the Short Story

by Benedict Ushedo

This book examines the range of issues that echo in James Baldwin's short stories. It articulates and defends the claim that the stories in the collection Going to Meet the Man are driven by the autobiographical memory of the author. To support this line of thought and the related proposition that the stories feed into themes relevant to self-knowledge, vicarious suffering, love, and forgiveness, their effectiveness as transformative and "revelatory...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1532617380
• ISBN13: 9781532617386
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Pickwick Publications
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"