James Baldwin and the Heavenly City: Prophecy, Apocalypse, and Doubt

by Christopher Z Hobson and Christopher Z. Hobson

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Behind James Baldwin's uncanny ability to evoke a nation's crisis and potential hope lies his use of religious language to describe social and sexual transformation. The first study of its kind, James Baldwin and the Heavenly City shows that Baldwin's novels use biblical ideas in partly but not fully secularized ways to express the possible human attainment of a new life embodying a real but undefinable holiness. Focusing on Baldwin's six novels,...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1611862892

ISBN13:9781611862898

Release Date:August 2018

Publisher:Michigan State University Press

Length:258 Pages

Weight:1.15 lbs.

Dimensions:1.2" x 6.3" x 9.1"

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