The Cambridge Companion to James Baldwin

Michele Elam is Professor of English at Stanford University, California. She is an affiliate with the Michelle R. Clayman Insitute for Gender Studies, African and African American Studies, and Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity. Elam is the author of Race, Work, and Desire in American Literature, 1860–1930 and The Souls of Mixed Folk: Race, Politics, and Aesthetics in the New Millennium, and is currently working on editing a critical mixed race studies reader.

1. 'Closer to something unnameable': James Baldwin's art of the novel Jacqueline Goldsby; 2. James Baldwin's poetics Meta Duewa Jones; 3. Go tell it on the mountain: the sermonic in the works of James Baldwin Soyica Diggs Colbert; 4. Paying dues and playing the blues: James Baldwin's existential jazz motif Radiclani Clytus; 5. Baldwin's theatre E. Patrick Johnson; 6. Baldwin's humor Danielle Heard; 7. James Baldwin and Yoran Cazac's 'Child's Story for Adults' Nicholas Boggs; 8. Baldwin's collaborations Brian Norman; 9. Baldwin and black leadership Eric R. Edwards; 10. 'As though a metaphor were tangible': James Baldwin and identity Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman; 11. Baldwin and the occasion of love Christopher Freeburg; 12. James Baldwin's FBI files as political biography Douglas Field; 13. Domesticating James Baldwin's global imagination Magdalena J. Zaborowska.