{"title":"James Baldwin","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eKnown for his novels, essays, poetry, plays, and activism Baldwin was a significant influence on both the civil rights and gay liberation movements in 20th century America. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHis writing often explores themes of race, sexuality, masculinity, and class with beautiful lyricism, power, and unflinching morality.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"9780141186375","title":"Another Country by James Baldwin","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen Another Country appeared in 1962, it caused a literary sensation. James Baldwin's masterly story of desire, hatred and violence opens with the unforgettable character of Rufus Scott, a scavenging Harlem jazz musician adrift in New York. Self-destructive, bad and brilliant, he draws us into a Bohemian underworld pulsing with heat, music and sex, where desperate and dangerous characters betray, love and test each other to the limit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAuthor James Baldwin\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eISBN 9780141186375\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFormat Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePages 422p.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":34217958593,"sku":"9780141186375","price":260.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1160\/4950\/products\/IMG_2491.JPG?v=1575931642"},{"product_id":"9780241334003","title":"Notes of a Native Son  by James Baldwin","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e#26 on \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian's\u003c\/i\u003e list of 100 best nonfiction books of all time, the essays explore what it means to be Black in America\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eIn an age of Black Lives Matter, James Baldwin's essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and African Americans abroad are as powerful today as when they were first written. With films like \u003ci\u003eI Am Not Your Negro\u003c\/i\u003e and the forthcoming \u003ci\u003eIf Beale Street Could Talk\u003c\/i\u003e bringing renewed interest to Baldwin's life and work, \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNotes of a Native Son \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eserves as a valuable introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWritten during the 1940s and early 1950s, when Baldwin was only in his twenties, the essays collected in \u003ci\u003eNotes of a Native Son \u003c\/i\u003ecapture a view of black life and black thought at the dawn of the civil rights movement and as the movement slowly gained strength through the words of one of the most captivating essayists and foremost intellectuals of that era. Writing as an artist, activist, and social critic, Baldwin probes the complex condition of being black in America. With a keen eye, he examines everything from the significance of the protest novel to the motives and circumstances of the many black expatriates of the time, from his home in “The Harlem Ghetto” to a sobering “Journey to Atlanta.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNotes of a Native Son\u003c\/i\u003e inaugurated Baldwin as one of the leading interpreters of the dramatic social changes erupting in the United States in the twentieth century, and many of his observations have proven almost prophetic. His criticism on topics such as the paternalism of white progressives or on his own friend Richard Wright’s work is pointed and unabashed. He was also one of the few writing on race at the time who addressed the issue with a powerful mixture of outrage at the gross physical and political violence against black citizens and measured understanding of their oppressors, which helped awaken a white audience to the injustices under their noses. Naturally, this combination of brazen criticism and unconventional empathy for white readers won Baldwin as much condemnation as praise. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNotes\u003c\/i\u003e is the book that established Baldwin’s voice as a social critic, and it remains one of his most admired works. The essays collected here create a cohesive sketch of black America and reveal an intimate portrait of Baldwin’s own search for identity as an artist, as a black man, and as an American.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default","offer_id":7895082139696,"sku":"9780241334003","price":270.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1160\/4950\/products\/kiwT7ru6Rx196mYjxpwV_51itIDJdyeL._SX324_BO1_204_203_200.jpg?v=1575931701"},{"product_id":"9780140182750","title":"The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe landmark work on race in America from James Baldwin, whose life and words are immortalized in the Oscar-nominated film \u003ci\u003eI Am Not Your Negro\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e'We, the black and the white, deeply need each other here if we are really to become a nation'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJames Baldwin's impassioned plea to 'end the racial nightmare' in America was a bestseller when it appeared in 1963, galvanising a nation and giving voice to the emerging civil rights movement. Told in the form of two intensely personal 'letters', \u003ci\u003eThe Fire Next Time\u003c\/i\u003e is at once a powerful evocation of Baldwin's early life in Harlem and an excoriating condemnation of the terrible legacy of racial injustice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Sermon, ultimatum, confession, deposition, testament, and chronicle ... all presented in searing, brilliant prose' \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Baldwin writes with great passion ... it reeks of truth, as the ghettoes of New York and London, Chicago and Manchester reek of our hypocrisy' \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'The great poet-prophet of the civil rights movement ... his seminal work' \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default","offer_id":7895085121584,"sku":"9780140182750","price":245.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1160\/4950\/products\/g4hARuNbT3GJCTRF8Ec1_download.jpg?v=1575931701"},{"product_id":"9780141185910","title":"Go Tell It On The Mountain, by James Baldwin","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGo back to where you started, or as far back as you can, examine all of it, travel your road again and tell the truth about it. Sing or shout or testify or keep it to yourself: but know whence you came.' Originally published in 1953, Go Tell it on the Mountain was James Baldwin's first major work, based in part on his own childhood in Harlem. With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating symbolic power and a rage that is at once unrelenting and compassionate, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's discovery of the terms of his identity as the stepson of the minister of a Pentecostal storefront church in Harlem. 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Readers will be introduced to love's endlessly fascinating possibilities and extremities: romantic love, platonic love, erotic love, gay love, virginal love, adulterous love, parental love, filial love, nostalgic love, unrequited love, illicit love, not to mention lost love, twisted and obsessional love...\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eShelf: LGBT Voices\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42595795075330,"sku":"9780141032948","price":275.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1160\/4950\/files\/baldwin2.jpg?v=1710320457"},{"product_id":"9780525575320","title":"Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy (author): Eddie S. 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Glaude Jr., when white Americans met the civil rights movement’s call for truth and justice with blind rage and the murders of movement leaders, so in our moment were the Obama presidency and the birth of Black Lives Matter answered with the ascendance of Trump and the violent resurgence of white nationalism.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIn these brilliant and stirring pages, Glaude finds hope and guidance in Baldwin as he mixes biography—drawn partially from newly uncovered Baldwin interviews—with history, memoir, and poignant analysis of our current moment to reveal the painful cycle of Black resistance and white retrenchment. As Glaude bears witness to the difficult truth of racism’s continued grip on the national soul, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eBegin Again\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a searing exploration of the tangled web of race, trauma, and memory, and a powerful interrogation of what we must ask of ourselves in order to call forth a new America.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Great Jones","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43719365591298,"sku":"9780525575320-JH","price":530.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1160\/4950\/products\/9780525575320.jpg?v=1685124817"},{"product_id":"i-am-not-your-negro-by-james-baldwin","title":"I Am Not Your Negro, by James Baldwin","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"mobile-about-the-book\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"slot product-about 9780525434696 isbn-related seemoreenable show opened\" id=\"seemore-0\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" height-fold=\"377\" target-height=\"470.07\"\u003e\n\u003csection class=\"overview\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn his final years, one of America’s greatest writers envisioned a book about his three assassinated friends, Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King. 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