Title:
Nobody knows my name : more notes of a native son
Edition:
First Vintage International edition
Publication Date:
1993
1961
Publication Information:
New York : Vintage Books, 1993.
©1961
Physical Description:
xiv, 241 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN:
9780679744733
Abstract:
A collection of Baldwin's essays on topics ranging from race relations in the United States--including an attack on William Faulkner for this ambivalent views about the segregated South--to the role of the writer in society, with personal accounts of such writers as Richard Wright and Norman Mailer. --From publisher description
General Note:
Originally published: New York : Dial Press, 1961.
Contents:
Part one. Sitting in the house. The discovery of what it means to be an American -- Princes and powers -- Fifth Avenue, uptown : a letter from Harlem -- East River, downtown : postscript to a letter from Harlem -- A fly in the buttermilk -- Nobody knows my name : a letter from the South -- Faulkner and desegregation -- In search of a majority.
Part two. With everything on my mind. Notes for a hypothetical novel -- The male prison -- The Northern Protestant -- Alas, poor Richard -- The black boy looks at the white boy.
Geographic Term:
Language:
English
