Mit leidenschaftlicher Intensität schildert der Autor das Schicksal eines jungen, rauschgiftsüchtigen Afroamerikaners. Abiturempfehlung zu den Themenbereichen Drugs und Race relations von Baldwin, James

"Giovanni's Room" von James Baldwin ist ein eindringlicher Roman, der sich mit Themen wie Identität, Sexualität und gesellschaftlichen Normen auseinandersetzt. Die Geschichte spielt im Paris der 1950er Jahre und folgt dem jungen...

In this honest and stunning novel that inspired the award-winning major motion picture of the same name, James Baldwin has given America a moving story of love in the face of injustice. "A major work of Black American fiction... His best...

Told with Baldwin's characteristically unflinching honesty, this collection of illuminating, deeply felt essays examines topics ranging from race relations in the United States to the role of the writer in society, and offers personal...

"Blues for Mister Charlie" ist ein Theaterstück von James Baldwin, das lose auf einem realen Mordfall basiert und die Themen Rassismus, Gerechtigkeit und gesellschaftliche Spannungen in den USA der 1960er Jahre untersucht. Die Handlung...

Born in Harlem in 1924, James Baldwin was a novelist, essayist, play¿wright, poet, social critic, and the author of more than twenty books. His first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain, appeared in 1953 to excellent reviews, and his essay...

"Baldwin on race is Baldwin on the white American psyche.... The Cross of Redemption becomes an absorbing portrait of Baldwin's time-and of him." -New York Review of Books A revelation by an American literary master: a gathering of...

"Basically the finest essay I've ever read. . . . Baldwin refused to hold anyone's hand. He was both direct and beautiful all at once. He did not seem to write to convince you. He wrote beyond you." --Ta-Nehisi Coates A national...

In a small Southern town, a white man murders a black man, then throws his body in the weeds. With this act of violence--which is loosely based on the notorious 1955 killing of Emmett Till--James Baldwin launches an unsparing and at...

When David meets the sensual Giovanni in a bohemian bar, he is swept into a passionate love affair. But his girlfriend¿s return to Paris destroys everything. Unable to admit to the truth, David pretends the liaison never happened ¿ while...

An extraordinary history of the turbulent sixties and early seventies that displays James Baldwin's fury and despair more deeply than any of his other works, and powerfully speaks to contemporary conversations around racism. "It contains...

One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'Baldwin's ground-breaking second novel, which established him as one of the great American writers of his timeDavid, a young American in 1950s Paris, is waiting for his fiancée to return...