Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes Of A Native Son (Penguin Modern Classics)

by JamesBaldwin (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  1991

  $12.41

  'These essays...live and grow in the mind' - James Campbell, Independent . Baldwin's early essays have been described as 'an unequaled meditation on what it means to be black in America'. This rich and stimulating collection contains Fifth Avenue, Uptown: a Letter from Harlem , polemical pieces on the tragedies inflicted by racial segregation and a poignant account of his first journey to 'the Old Country', the Southern states. Yet equally compelling are his Notes for a Hypothetical Novel and personal reflections on being American, on other major artists - Ingmar Bergman and Andre Gide, Norman Mailer and Richard Wright - and on the first great conference of African Writers and Artists in Paris.