James Baldwin, one of the major African American writers of the twentieth century, has been the subject of a substantial body of literary criticism. As a prolific and experimental author with a marginal perspective--a black man during segregation and the Civil Rights era, a homosexual at a time when tolerance toward gays was not common--Baldwin has fascinated readers for over half a century. Yet Baldwin's critics have tended to separate his weighty, complex body of work and to examine it piecemeal. A Criminal Power: James Baldwin and the Law is the first thematic study to analyze the...
James Baldwin, one of the major African American writers of the twentieth century, has been the subject of a substantial body of literary criticism. A...
