James Baldwin and the Heavenly City: Prophecy, Apocalypse, and Doubt

by Christopher Z Hobson and Christopher Z. Hobson

Behind James Baldwin's uncanny ability to evoke a nation's crisis and potential hope lies his use of religious language to describe social and sexual transformation. The first study of its kind, James Baldwin and the Heavenly City shows that Baldwin's novels use biblical ideas in partly but not fully secularized ways to express the possible human attainment of a new life embodying a real but undefinable holiness. Focusing on Baldwin's six novels,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611862892
• ISBN13: 9781611862898
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Michigan State University Press
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.1"