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James Baldwin

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Black American writer mentioned as an example of diverse literary study that could replace traditional canonical authors like Sophocles in humanities curricula.

Mentions (10)
"These bitches think they're James Baldwin for basically saying 'ackshually, white people are the dominant race and you can't be racist up'"
"The most famous literary magazine of all time. Elizabeth Bishop, JD Salinger, Truman Capote, James Baldwin, Mavis Gallant, Bourdain's 'Don't eat before reading this', so many legendary stories, debuts, writers, time pieces."
The Collapse of The New Yorker · u/czacc52 · ↑363 · 2024-12-04
"I know he wrote stuff but i dont know where to get started. All the James Baldwin fans help me out. I feel like the mind of this man is worth picking apart."
Every time i see this guy he is saying something beautiful. · u/UnderTheMoon88 · ↑360 · 2024-09-07
"I love James Baldwin and Maya Angelou, their words give me hope like no others"
I like people · u/magentabuttermilk · ↑79 · 2024-02-09
"James Baldwin tells the story of a tragic love affair in Paris through the eyes of David, a thoughtful American who meets many abject beautiful people and grotesque queers. It's gay, homophobic and short enough for pseudo-intellectuals who don't normally read. I bet many here would love it! The bant"
Red Scare book recommendation: Giovanni's Room · u/grim_bey · ↑41 · 2021-07-25
""Sentimentality, the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty, the inability to feel; the wet eyes of the sentimentalist betray his aversion to experience, his fear of life, his arid heart; and it is always, therefore, the signal of secret and violent inhuma"
James Baldwin on Sentimentality · u/Clitasaurus_R3x · ↑39 · 2019-10-02
"It's perfectly fine, I think, if humanities students want to study more Borges or James Baldwin and less Sophocles, but there needs to be an idea of what value literature or poetry or philosophy have outside of serving as political propaganda."
"I love James Baldwin and Maya Angelou, their words give me hope like no others"
I like people · u/magentabuttermilk · ↑79 · 2024-02-09
"James Baldwin tells the story of a tragic love affair in Paris through the eyes of David"
Red Scare book recommendation: Giovanni's Room · u/grim_bey · ↑41 · 2021-07-25
"Sentimentality, the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty, the inability to feel; the wet eyes of the sentimentalist betray his aversion to experience, his fear of life, his arid heart; and it is always, therefore, the signal of secret and violent inhuman"
James Baldwin on Sentimentality · u/Clitasaurus_R3x · ↑39 · 2019-10-02
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