![]() ![]() Dudley shows that a proper grasp of Baldwin's work begins with a grasp of the times in which he wrote. What concerned him most-as a black man, as a gay man, as an American-were notions of isolation and disconnection at both the individual and communal level and a conviction that only in the transformative power of love could humanity find any hope of healing its spiritual and social wounds. The Harlem-born son of a storefront preacher, JamesBaldwin died almost thirty years ago, but his spirit lives on in the eloquent and still-relevant musings of his novels, short stories, essays, and poems. An analysis of the ground-breaking author's vision and thematic concerns
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