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Amerikaanse Schrijvers, Biografie

Magdalena J. Zaborowska – James Baldwin biografie

Magdalena J. Zaborowska James Baldwin biografie recensie, review en informatie over de inhoud. Op 25 maart 2025 verschijnt in de reeks Black Lifes van Yale University Press de biografie van de Amerikaanse schrijver James Baldwin geschreven door de Amerikaanse professor Magdalena J. Zaborowska. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de biografie is niet verkrijgbaar.

Magdalena J. Zaborowska James Baldwin biografie recensie, review en informatie

  • “Baldwin authority Zaborowska’s gracefully impassioned biography of the queer author and activist’s life and legacy. … A creatively conceived appreciation for a decorated life and its far-flung influences on race, queer culture, and art.” (Kirkus Reviews)
  • “Zaborowska not only produces one of the richest pictures of James Baldwin’s personal and professional lives ever written, but also, she boldly dives into the debates surrounding the ways that images of James (Jimmy) continue to be both used-and abused.” (Robert F. Reid-Pharr, New York University)

Magdalena J. Zaborowska James Baldwin biografie

James Baldwin

The Life Album

  • Auteur: Magdalena J. Zaborowska (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: biografie
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Yale University Press
  • Reeks: Black Lifes
  • Verschijnt: 25 maart 2025
  • Omvang: 320 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 28,00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de nieuw biografie van James Baldwin

An intimate portrait of James Baldwin, offering a new understanding of his life and works as seen through his close relationships and private life.

James Baldwin (1924–1987) was a pivotal figure of the twentieth century, an influential author, intellectual, and activist who led a celebrated public life—and whose words and image and persona remain current in our culture. Baldwin’s many incarnations—“son of Harlem,” “Black icon,” “great twentieth-century writer,” “race man,” “prophet,” “witness”—have reemerged in the digital age as Baldwin’s work becomes a touchstone for a new generation. It is the private, vulnerable, and messier Baldwin—the man behind the prophet and the online meme—who is the focus of this book.

Magdalena J. Zaborowska draws on Baldwin’s archives and material legacy—from his unpublished papers to his books to his house in France—to offer a fresh look at the writer’s understated and obscured private life. Taking a cue from Baldwin’s own love of the blues, Zaborowska presents his biography as a series of tracks on a vinyl record, introducing, developing, and remixing the themes and relationships from his life. She recounts episodes from Baldwin’s troubled childhood, his struggles with sexuality and gender, his intimate relationships, and the overlooked influence of women, Jews, and queers on his writing. This Life Album revolves around Baldwin’s development of a unique worldview, “Black queer humanism,” premised on African diaspora aesthetics, resilience, joy, community, internationalism, activism, and justice.

Magdalena J. Zaborowska is professor and chair of the Department of American Culture and professor in the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. She is the author of several books, including Me and My House: James Baldwin’s Last Decade in France.

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Amerikaanse geschiedenis, Amerikaanse Schrijvers, Biografie

Shelley Fisher Fishkin – Jim

Shelley Fisher Fishkin Jim recensie, review en informatie biografie en boek over het leven en het hiernamaals van de kameraad van Huckleberry Finn. Op 15 april 2025 verschijnt in de reeks Black Lifes van Yale University Press de biografie van Jim de kameraad van Huckleberry Finn uit de roman van Mark Twain, geschreven door de Amerikaanse professor Shelley Fisher Fishkin. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de biografie is niet verkrijgbaar.

Shelley Fisher Fishkin Jim recensie, review en informatie

  • “Fishkin stands at the pinnacle of Mark Twain studies and criticism. Her astonishing gifts have taken her, and us, far beyond the often-cramped field of enquiries into Mark Twain. She has stood virtually alone in her insistence on race as the thematic foundation of Mark Twain’s literary greatness, producing books, essays, papers and lectures that break open the deceptively bland yet wickedly subtle strategies through which Twain became a defiant truth-teller. …Jim, at the end, is nothing short of a call to hope: hope that even in morally chaotic times such as ours, words—written well, read responsibly, and evaluated with bold sophistication—can save us.” (Ron Powers, author of Mark Twain: a Life)

Shelley Fisher Fishkin Jim

Jim

The Life and Afterlives of Huckleberry Finn’s Comrade

  • Auteur: Shelley Fisher Fishkin (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: biografie
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Yale University Press
  • Reeks: Black Lifes
  • Verschijnt: 15 april 2025
  • Omvang: 464 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 28,00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van het boek over de kameraad van Huckleberry Finn

The origins and influence of Jim, Mark Twain’s beloved yet polarizing literary figure.

Mark Twain’s Jim, introduced in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), is a shrewd, self‑aware, and enormously admirable enslaved man, one of the first fully drawn Black fathers in American fiction. Haunted by the family he has left behind, Jim acts as father figure to Huck, the white boy who is his companion as they raft the Mississippi toward freedom. Jim is also a highly polarizing figure: he is viewed as an emblem both of Twain’s alleged racism and of his opposition to racism; a diminished character inflected by minstrelsy and a powerful challenge to minstrel stereotypes; a reason for banning Huckleberry Finn and a reason for teaching it; an embarrassment and a source of pride for Black readers.

Eminent Twain scholar Shelley Fisher Fishkin probes these controversies, exploring who Jim was, how Twain portrayed him, and how the world has responded to him. Fishkin also follows Jim’s many afterlives: in film, from Hollywood to the Soviet Union; in translation around the world; and in American high school classrooms today. The result is Jim as we have never seen him before—a fresh and compelling portrait of one of the most memorable Black characters in American fiction.

Shelley Fisher Fishkin was born 9 may 1950. She is the Joseph S. Atha Professor of Humanities, professor of English, and professor (by courtesy) of African and African American Studies at Stanford University. She is the author or editor of many books, including Writing America: Literary Landmarks from Walden Pond to Wounded Knee and Was Huck Black? Mark Twain and African American Voices, and editor of the twenty-nine-volume Oxford Mark Twain. She lives in Stanford, California.

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