James Baldwin Review
Volume 11
Published on 23. September 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
304 pages
978-1-5261-9608-8 (ISBN)
Description
James Baldwin Review (JBR) is an annual journal that brings together a wide array of peer-reviewed critical and creative work on the life, writings, and legacy of James Baldwin. In addition to these cutting-edge contributions, each issue contains a review of recent Baldwin scholarship and an award-winning graduate student essay. James Baldwin Review publishes essays that invigorate scholarship on James Baldwin; catalyze explorations of the literary, political, and cultural influence of Baldwin's writing and political activism; and deepen our understanding and appreciation of this complex and luminary figure. -- .
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Language
English
Place of publication
Manchester
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
8 black & white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
477 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5261-9608-8 (9781526196088)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Douglas Field is Professor of Twentieth Century American Literature at the University of Manchester
Justin A. Joyce is Managing Editor of James Baldwin Review
Dwight A. McBride is Gerald Early Distinguished Professor of African & African American Studies at Washington University in St. Louis -- .
Justin A. Joyce is Managing Editor of James Baldwin Review
Dwight A. McBride is Gerald Early Distinguished Professor of African & African American Studies at Washington University in St. Louis -- .
Content
Introductions
1 Hic Sunt Dracones: An Editorial Preface on the American Conundrum - Justin A. Joyce
2 "A new sense of life's possibilities": European Baldwins - Remo Verdickt, Pieter Vermeulen, and Gianna Zocco
Feature Essay
3 Each of Us Contains the Other: My Lives with James Baldwin - Magdalena Zaborowska
Essays
4 The New German Baldwin and His Company. A Comparative Study of the Paratexts in Dtv's edition of James Baldwin - Gianna Zocco
5 Baldwin's European Digital Circulation: More Tweets of a Native Son - Remo Verdickt and Jonathan Hoebeke
6 Baldwin in Spain: Reception, Censorship, and Political (Mis)appropriations - Jordi Cornella Detrell
7 Confessions of Bad Faith: Giovanni's Room as James Baldwin's Response to European Existentialism - Sonja Pyykkoe
8 Baldwin's Postcolonial Turn: Black Families from Moynihan to No Name in the Street - Gerald Naughton
Graduate Student Essay Award Winner
9 It's Not All Black and White: Dutch Translations of The Fire Next Time - Katinka Zeven
Interviews
10 Witness to a World in Crisis: An Interview with Rene Aguigah - Remo Verdickt
11 "I was a Witness": An Interview with Jack Hazan - John Livesey
12 "Translating is Also a Way of Doing Justice": A Survey of Baldwin's European Translators - Remo Verdickt
From the Field
13 James Baldwin and Britain: Emerging Insights - Isabel Taube
Dispatches
14 Closets Foreign and Familiar: Giovanni's Room at the International Theater of Amsterdam - Monica B. Pearl
15 To Resonate Still: A Letter to James Baldwin - Yousra Benfquih
16 In the Family: Sonic Black Queer Genealogies and No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin - Rebecca Wanzo
17 Exhibition Review: "This Morning, This Evening, So Soon: James Baldwin and the Voices of Queer Resistance" - Monika Gehlawat
Bibliographic Essay
18 Baldwin's Reception in France in the Twenty-First Century: Publishing Flurry and Political Relevance - Claudine Raynaud -- .
1 Hic Sunt Dracones: An Editorial Preface on the American Conundrum - Justin A. Joyce
2 "A new sense of life's possibilities": European Baldwins - Remo Verdickt, Pieter Vermeulen, and Gianna Zocco
Feature Essay
3 Each of Us Contains the Other: My Lives with James Baldwin - Magdalena Zaborowska
Essays
4 The New German Baldwin and His Company. A Comparative Study of the Paratexts in Dtv's edition of James Baldwin - Gianna Zocco
5 Baldwin's European Digital Circulation: More Tweets of a Native Son - Remo Verdickt and Jonathan Hoebeke
6 Baldwin in Spain: Reception, Censorship, and Political (Mis)appropriations - Jordi Cornella Detrell
7 Confessions of Bad Faith: Giovanni's Room as James Baldwin's Response to European Existentialism - Sonja Pyykkoe
8 Baldwin's Postcolonial Turn: Black Families from Moynihan to No Name in the Street - Gerald Naughton
Graduate Student Essay Award Winner
9 It's Not All Black and White: Dutch Translations of The Fire Next Time - Katinka Zeven
Interviews
10 Witness to a World in Crisis: An Interview with Rene Aguigah - Remo Verdickt
11 "I was a Witness": An Interview with Jack Hazan - John Livesey
12 "Translating is Also a Way of Doing Justice": A Survey of Baldwin's European Translators - Remo Verdickt
From the Field
13 James Baldwin and Britain: Emerging Insights - Isabel Taube
Dispatches
14 Closets Foreign and Familiar: Giovanni's Room at the International Theater of Amsterdam - Monica B. Pearl
15 To Resonate Still: A Letter to James Baldwin - Yousra Benfquih
16 In the Family: Sonic Black Queer Genealogies and No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin - Rebecca Wanzo
17 Exhibition Review: "This Morning, This Evening, So Soon: James Baldwin and the Voices of Queer Resistance" - Monika Gehlawat
Bibliographic Essay
18 Baldwin's Reception in France in the Twenty-First Century: Publishing Flurry and Political Relevance - Claudine Raynaud -- .