After Decolonization, After Civil Rights: Chinua Achebe and James Baldwin

The escalation of systematic, if random, violence in the contemporary world frames the concerns of the article, which seeks to read Baldwin for the present. It works by a measure of indirection, arriving at Baldwin after a detour which introduces Chinua Achebe. The Baldwin–Achebe relationship is fam...

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Main Author: Bill Schwarz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Manchester University Press 2015-09-01
Series:James Baldwin Review
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Online Access:https://jbr.openlibrary.manchester.ac.uk/index.php/jbr/article/view/3