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So Unimaginable a Price: Baldwin and the Black Atlantic

So Unimaginable a Price: Baldwin and the Black Atlantic

Drabinski, John E.

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PhilosophyBlack American StudiesGeneral Sociology

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ISBN10: 0810149567
ISBN13: 9780810149564
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: Dec 15 2025
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.71 Width: 6.21 Depth: 9.11
Language: English
Rereading Baldwin's nonfiction in the context of midcentury Black Atlantic thought

James Baldwin's nonfiction offers some of the most important and challenging thinking on the experience of race, history, and memory in the Black Atlantic world. Yet much of the scholarly literature on Baldwin's writing reads his work from inside the sociocultural context of the United States, alongside key interlocutors like Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, and Lorraine Hansberry. So Unimaginable a Price: Baldwin and the Black Atlantic shifts the critical frame, examining Baldwin's work as part of a midcentury moment across the wider Atlantic world and tying his reflections to those of thinkers in the Caribbean and Africa to underscore the widening sense, as well as the particularity, of his critical claims. Who is Baldwin to the Atlantic world? And who, then, is Baldwin to the United States? John E. Drabinski recasts Baldwin as a Black Atlantic writer whose unique qualities as a thinker are enhanced by their similarities and differences with fellow writers of liberation in the global Black world.

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