James Baldwin Review (JBR) is an annual journal that brings together a wide array of peer-reviewed critical and creative work on the life, writings, and legacy of James Baldwin. In addition to these cutting-edge contributions, each issue contains a review of recent Baldwin scholarship and an award-winning graduate student essay. James Baldwin Review publishes essays that invigorate scholarship on James Baldwin; catalyze explorations of the literary, political, and cultural influence of Baldwins writing and political activism; and deepen our understanding and appreciation of this complex and luminary figure. -- .
Introductions
1 Hic Sunt Dracones: An Editorial Preface on the American Conundrum Justin
A. Joyce
2 A new sense of lifes possibilities: European Baldwins Remo Verdickt,
Pieter Vermeulen, and Gianna Zocco
Feature Essay
3 Each of Us Contains the Other: My Lives with James Baldwin Magdalena
Zaborowska
Essays
4 The New German Baldwin and His Company. A Comparative Study of the
Paratexts in Dtvs edition of James Baldwin Gianna Zocco
5 Baldwins European Digital Circulation: More Tweets of a Native Son Remo
Verdickt and Jonathan Hoebeke
6 Baldwin in Spain: Reception, Censorship, and Political (Mis)appropriations
Jordi Cornellą Detrell
7 Confessions of Bad Faith: Giovannis Room as James Baldwins Response to
European Existentialism Sonja Pyykkö
8 Baldwins Postcolonial Turn: Black Families from Moynihan to No Name in the
Street Gerald Naughton
Graduate Student Essay Award Winner
9 Its Not All Black and White: Dutch Translations of The Fire Next Time
Katinka Zeven
Interviews
10 Witness to a World in Crisis: An Interview with René Aguigah Remo
Verdickt
11 I was a Witness: An Interview with Jack Hazan John Livesey
12 Translating is Also a Way of Doing Justice: A Survey of Baldwins
European Translators Remo Verdickt
From the Field
13 James Baldwin and Britain: Emerging Insights Isabel Taube
Dispatches
14 Closets Foreign and Familiar: Giovannis Room at the International Theater
of Amsterdam Monica B. Pearl
15 To Resonate Still: A Letter to James Baldwin Yousra Benfquih
16 In the Family: Sonic Black Queer Genealogies and No More Water: The Gospel
of James Baldwin Rebecca Wanzo
17 Exhibition Review: This Morning, This Evening, So Soon: James Baldwin and
the Voices of Queer Resistance Monika Gehlawat
Bibliographic Essay
18 Baldwins Reception in France in the Twenty-First Century: Publishing
Flurry and Political Relevance Claudine Raynaud -- .
Douglas Field is Professor of Twentieth Century American Literature at the University of Manchester
Justin A. Joyce is Managing Editor of James Baldwin Review
Dwight A. McBride is Gerald Early Distinguished Professor of African & African American Studies at Washington University in St. Louis -- .
