A selective list of online literary criticism for James Baldwin, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in peer and editor reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the MLA guidelines for web sites
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Abur-Rahman, Aliyyah I. "Simply a menaced boy": analogizing color, undoing dominance in James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room. African American Review, Fall, 2007.
Brown, Stephanie Lynne. "Constructing and contesting authenticity in the postwar African-American novel [James Baldwin, Chester Himes]. PhD dissertation, Columbia, 2002
Clark, Keith. A review of Black Manhood in James Baldwin, Ernest J. Gaines, and August Wilson. (Univ. of Illinois Press, 2002) Reviewed in African American Review, Summer-Fall, 2003 by D. Quentin Miller
de Romanet, Jerome. Revisiting 'Madeleine' and "The Outing": James Baldwin's revision of Gide's sexual politics - Andre Gide - Ethnicities/Sexualities. In MELUS, Spring, 1997
Dunning, Stefanie. "Parallel perversions: interracial and same sexuality in James Baldwin's Another Country" MELUS, Winter, 2001
Dupee, F.W. A discussion of James Baldwin's essays in a review of The Fire Next Time, in The NY Review of Books, 2/1/1963
Harris, Trudier (ed.) Publisher's site for New Essays on Go Tell It on the Mountain (Cambridge Univ. Press)
Leeming, David. A review of Leeming's James Baldwin: A Biography (Knopf, 1994) African American Review, Summer, 1997 by Fred L. Standley
Leeming, David. Two reviews of Leeming's James Baldwin: A Biography from the NY Times By Mel Watkins and By Margo Jefferson
McBride, Dwight A. (ed.) A review of James Baldwin Now (New York Univ.Press, 1999) Reviewed in MELUS, Fall, 2001 by Douglas Field
Miller, Elise. "The 'maw of western culture': James Baldwin and the anxieties of influence." African American Review, Winter, 2004
Miller, D. Quentin (ed.) Re-Viewing James Baldwin: Things Not Seen (Temple Univ. Press, 2000) Reviewed by Storhoff, Gary, in African American Review, Winter, 2001
Norman, Brian. "Reading a 'closet screenplay': Hollywood, James Baldwin's Malcolms and the threat of historical irrelevance." On an unproduced screenplay by Baldwin about Malcolm X. African American Review, Spring-Summer, 2005
Norman, Brian. "James Baldwin's confrontation with US imperialism in If Beale Street Could Talk." Melus, March 2007.
Olson, Barbara K. "Come-to-Jesus Stuff" in James Baldwin's 'Go tell It on the Mountain' and 'The Amen Corner.' African American Review, Summer, 1997
Scott, Lynn Orilla. A review of James Baldwin's Later Fiction: Witness to the Journey. (Michigan State Univ. Press, 2002) Reviewed in African American Review, Spring, 2004 by Douglas Field
Shin, Andrew, and Barbara Hudson. "Beneath the Black aesthetic: James Baldwin's primer of Black American masculinity - African American gay author," in African American Review, Summer, 1998
Stevenson, John. "James Baldwin: An Appreciation" In Boston Book Review, December 1995 "James Baldwin isn't much commented on these days, but for a few years in the early 1960s he lit up the cultural landscape like a bolt from the heavens..."
Tomlinson, Robert. "'Payin' one's dues': expatriation as personal experience and paradigm in the works of James Baldwin," African American Review, Spring, 1999
Teachout, Terry. "Who now reads James Baldwin?" asks this reviewer of two new Library of America editions of Baldwin's works. National Review, Feb 9, 1998
Wycliff, Don. "A preacher's son - African American author James Baldwin" Commonweal, Oct 9, 1998
Zaborowska, Magdalena J. A substantial introductory article on James Baldwin from the Literary Encyclopedia, 10/25/02
A Teacher's Guide to James Baldwin, contributing editors: Trudier Harris and John Reilly, from textbook publisher Heath
A discussion guide on Nobody Knows My Name and The Fire Next Time, from Random House Academic
"How the African-American Storyteller Impacts the Black Family and Society." A teacher's guide, by Barbara P. Moss. From the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute
"The Blues Impulse in Drama: Lessons on Racial Pain" by Paul E. Turtola, a teacher's guide from the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute
"The Family on Stage in the Americas" by Sally B. Kaczynski, a teacher's guide for using monologues in teaching, suggests using James Baldwin's The Amen Corner From the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute
"A Guide Through the Culture of the Blues," by Sloan E. Williams III, a teacher's guide from the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute
Teaching resources for James Baldwin created by C-Span, for their 2002 American Writers series
James Baldwin's obituary in the NY Times
A web page on James Baldwin from the PBS American Masters series
Brief biography of James Baldwin from Random House
On a video about James Baldwin, "The Price of the Ticket," 1990
A very brief biography of James Baldwin from the Black Collegian Online
Some remarks by James Baldwin on his friendships with Bobby Seale, Huey Newton and Eldridge Cleaver
A 1953 NY Times review of Go Tell It On the Mountain.
A 1956 NY Times review of Giovanni's Room
A 1956 NY Times review of Blues for Mr. Charlie
A 1958 NY Times review of Notes of a Native Son
A 1963 NY Times review of The Fire Next Time
A NY Times special page on James Baldwin has many articles on James Baldwin including interviews, tributes, and additional reviews.
A secondary bibliography for James Baldwin from the Bibliography Committee of the Society for the Study of Southern Literature, briefly annotated
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