James Baldwin's Later Fiction: Witness to the Journey

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Index .A Abidjan, 120 Achebe, Chinua, 12 Ackroyd, Peter, 194n. 57 actors, xxv, 30, 32-36, 41, 46, 53, 57 Actors' Means Workshop, 32-33, 38, 39, 49 Adams, Stephen, 14-15, 184n. 9 adolescence, xv, xxv Africa, 138, 139 "Alas, Poor Richard," 144 Aldridge, John, 9, 192-93n. 57 Algren, Nelson, 21 alienation, 160, 211n. 130 Allen, Shirley, 51 Als, Hilton, 9-10 Amen Corner, xxiv, 126, 146 Andrews, William, 29 androgyny, 81, 168 226 Angelou, Maya, 2 Another Country, xvii, xxiv, xxv, 6, 13, 14-15,16,48,58,75, 116, 146 Apocalypse, 42, 71 Apocalyptic vision, 21, 72 applause, 157-59 Armstrong, Louis, 140 art vs. politics, 8-10 articulate kinsman, 37 articulate survivor, 37 artists, xviii, xxiii, xxviii, 48, 63, 64, 65, 75, 83, 85-86, 121; actors, xxv, 30, 32-36,41,46,53,57; musicians, 146-47, 152-53; poets, 4, 75; sculptors, 62,65, 86-87, 103, 114; singers, xxv, 101, 126, 128, 130 ascent narrative, 26-28, 35-36, 43, 45, 126 Attica prison, 66 Auchincloss, Eve, 69, 75 audiences, 33-34, 36, 41, 46, 121, 129, 145, 152, 156-59 autobiography, xiii, xiv, 20, 24-29, 47, 50-51,56,67,123-26,136 autotherapeutic writing, 123, 124, 125 Avedon, Richard, xii, xvi Ayer, Gertrude, xv .B Baker, Houston, xxix, xxx, 7, 8,49,51,65, 180n.24, 184n. 17 Baldwin, Berdis, ix, xiv, 205-6n. 6 Baldwin, David, xxi, 63, 73, 205-6n. 22 Baldwin, David, senior, xiv-xv, xvi Balfour, Lawrie, 180n. 22 Baraka, Amiri (LeRoi Jones), 2, 10, 180n.28,191n.40 Barbados, 55 Beale Street, 89-92 "Beale Street Blues," 89-90 Beam, Joseph, 203-4n. 7 bebop, 124 Bell, Pearl K., 9, 192-93n. 57, 202n. 4 Benjamin, Walter, 129, 130, 136 WITNESS TO THE JOURNEY Bergman, David, 14, 15, 164-65 Bible, xv, 50, 51, 64, 93-94 bibliographies, 179n. 12 Bildad,95 biographies, xiv,S, 6 Birmingham, 101, 155 bisexuality, xvii, xxv, 13, 17, 23, 32, 49, 61, 116, 160, 165 Black Arts movement, 76 Black Belt, 40-41 "Black is beautiful," 74 Black Muslims, xx black militants, 9, 12, 15, 22-23, 32, 51 black nationalism, 3, 17, 23, 50, 60, 147 Black Panthers, xxi, xxii, 22, 66, 73, 183n.7 Black Power movement, xiii, xx, xxi, 10, 22, 23, 32, 78 Black Scholar interview, 71, 72, 75, 76, 105 black studies, 6, 178n. 5 Blaxploitation movies, 147 blood, 131-32 blues, xiv, xviii, xxv, 33, 36, 51, 62, 78-79, 89-93, 101, 122, 130, 131, 133, 143, 150-54, 158 blues culture, 65 Blues for Mister Charlie, xxiv, 9, 109-10, 126, 146 blues heroes, 123, 131 blues stories, 88 Bobia, Rosa,S Boggs, Nicholas, 179-80n. 15 Bone, Robert, 13 bourgeois aesthetics, xxix, 8, 9 Boyer, Horace, 150 Bozkurt, Saadet, 208n. 70 Brando, Marlon, xxii bridges, 140, 142, 167 brothers, xxv, 60, 128, 134, 148 Brown, Marie, 2 Bruck, Peter, 208n. 70 Burks, Mary Fair, 112, 194n. 57 Byerman, Keith, 7 Index .c California, 138 call and response, 141, 150, 156-57, 159 Callahan, john, 7 Campbell, james, 6, 122, 204-5n. 11 canonization, 7-8, 14 Capouya, Emile, xvi Carmichael, Stokely, xxi-xxii Carson, Warren j., 207n. 42 Carzac, Yoran, 67 categories of race and sex, xiii-xiv, 4, 5, 7, 23, 81, 117-18 celebrity, x, 27 Central Park, xxvi, 52, 53-54 Cezzar, Engin, xxi Charles, Ray, 140 The Chi-Lites, 147 child preachers, xv, 127, 131, 135 Chisenhall, Fred, 90 chronology, 27, 38, 137 Church, Robert Reed, 90 The church, ix, xxviii, 63, 93-94, 97-100, 108, 124, 125-26, 141, 150, 156, 198n. 113, 209n. 90; leaving the, 209n. 90 Civil Rights movement, xx, xxii, 10, 13, 20-22,47, 52, 67, 68, 74, 106-7, 126, 139,151,152,156,166,192n.49 Civil War, xvii, 150 Clark, Keith, 177n. 52 Clark, Kenneth, xx, 107 Clark, Mark, 66 Cleaver, Eldridge, 9, 12-13, 14, 15, 16, 72-73,74,202n.4 coded language, 130, 138, 144, 145, 166 cold war, xxii color line, 39, 40 Coltrane, john, 140 "Come out the Wilderness," 63, 84 Commentary, xxix Communist party, viii, 73 Communitas, 40-43 Conversations with James Baldwin, xii conversion, xv, xxv, xxx, 57, 87, 98, 105, 227 125, 198n. 113, 208n. 70 Cooke, Michael, 7 CORE, ix, xx, xxi The Corn Is Green, 34-36, 41, 46, 53, 156 country houses...