Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to James Baldwin
- Series page
- The Cambridge Companion to James Baldwin
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Notes on Contributors
- Book part
- Glossary
- Introduction: Baldwin’s Art
- Part I Genres and Mélanges
- 2 Baldwin’s Poetics
- 3 Go Tell It on the Mountain: Baldwin’s Sermonic
- 4 Paying Dues and Playing the Blues: Baldwin’s Existential Jazz
- 5 Baldwin’s Theatre
- 6 Baldwin’s Humor
- 7 Baldwin and Yoran Cazac’s “Child’s Story for Adults”
- Part II Collaborations and Confluences
- 9 Baldwin and Black Leadership
- 10 “As Though a Metaphor Were Tangible”: Baldwin’s Identities
- 11 Baldwin and the Occasion of Love
- 12 Baldwin’s FBI Files as Political Biography
- 13 Domesticating Baldwin’s Global Imagination
- Coda: The Heart of Baldwin
- Guide to Further Reading
- Works by James Baldwin
- Index
- Cambridge Companions to...
6 - Baldwin’s Humor
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2015
- The Cambridge Companion to James Baldwin
- Series page
- The Cambridge Companion to James Baldwin
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Notes on Contributors
- Book part
- Glossary
- Introduction: Baldwin’s Art
- Part I Genres and Mélanges
- 2 Baldwin’s Poetics
- 3 Go Tell It on the Mountain: Baldwin’s Sermonic
- 4 Paying Dues and Playing the Blues: Baldwin’s Existential Jazz
- 5 Baldwin’s Theatre
- 6 Baldwin’s Humor
- 7 Baldwin and Yoran Cazac’s “Child’s Story for Adults”
- Part II Collaborations and Confluences
- 9 Baldwin and Black Leadership
- 10 “As Though a Metaphor Were Tangible”: Baldwin’s Identities
- 11 Baldwin and the Occasion of Love
- 12 Baldwin’s FBI Files as Political Biography
- 13 Domesticating Baldwin’s Global Imagination
- Coda: The Heart of Baldwin
- Guide to Further Reading
- Works by James Baldwin
- Index
- Cambridge Companions to...
- Type
- Chapter
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- The Cambridge Companion to James Baldwin , pp. 100 - 117Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015