Of Latitudes Unknown

Alice Mikal Craven is Professor of Comparative Literature at the American University of Paris, France, and Chair of Film Studies. She is co-editor of Richard Wright: New Readings in the 21st Century (2011) and Richard Wright in a Post-Racial Imaginary (Bloomsbury, 2014). She is author of Visible and Invisible Whiteness: American White Supremacy through the Cinematic Lens (2018). William E. Dow is Professor of American Literature at the Université Paris-Est (UPEM), France, and Professor of English at the American University of Paris, France. He is the author of Narrating Class in American Fiction (2009) and co-editor of Richard Wright: New Readings in the 21st Century (2011) and Richard Wright in a Post-Racial Imaginary (Bloomsbury, 2014). Yoko Nakamura is a Ph.D. candidate in Interdisciplinary Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Iowa, USA.

Foreword: The Death of the Prophet
Douglas Field (University of Manchester, UK)

Introduction: Baldwin’s Radical Imagination
Alice Mikal Craven (American University of Paris, France) and William E. Dow (Université Paris-Est, France)

Part 1: James Baldwin: Film, Photography, and the Visual Arts
1. Black Bodies on Screen, White Privilege in Hollywood: James Baldwin on Lang and Preminger
Alice Mikal Craven (American University of Paris, France)
2. Picturing Jimmy, Picturing Self: James Baldwin, Beauford Delaney, and the Color of Light
James Smalls (University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA)
3. Lessons in Light: Beauford Delaney’s and James Baldwin’s ‘Unnameable Objects’
Tyler T. Schmidt (CUNY Lehman, USA)
Part 2: Baldwin’s Journalism and Literary Journalism
4. “To End the Racial Nightmare, and Achieve Our Country”: James Baldwin and the US Civil Rights Movement
Kathy Roberts Forde (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA)
5. The Documentary Tradition in James Baldwin’s Écriture Vérité
Isabelle Meuret (Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)
6. Journeys of the “I” in James Baldwin’s Literary-journalistic Essays
William E. Dow (Université Paris-Est, France)
Part 3: Baldwin Re-Sighted Transnationally
7. French Baldwin (on Screen): “le criminel artiste”
Claudine Raynaud (University Paul Valéry, France)
8. The Terror Within: Giovanni's Room, L’Étranger, and the Possibility of an Absurd Heroism
Timothy McGinnis (Harvard Medical School, USA)
9. James Baldwin’s Black Power: No Name in the Street, Fanon, Camus, and the Black Panthers
James Miller (Kingston University, UK)
Part 4: James Baldwin and Changing Communities: Recontextualizing Baldwin’s Legacy
10. Continuing a Legacy: James Baldwin, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and the African American Witness
Marcus Bruce (Bates College, USA)
11. Baldwin, the “Arab,” and the End of the West
Bill V. Mullen (Purdue University, USA)
12. Effective/Defective James Baldwin
Robert F. Reid-Pharr (City University of New York, USA)

List of Contributors
Index