Jamese Baldwin, an Annotated Bibliography
James Baldwin Annotated Bibliography As I shall show in the paper that follows, a quest for family stability and the ability of self- expression through his gift of communication characterized James Baldwin’s childhood; as James Baldwin developed into an adult, he used his command of language and dedication to his craft to transfer his life’s experiences to the written page and bring his civil rights journey into his writings. August 2, 1924 turned out to be a very eventful day at Harlem Hospital in Harlem, New York when soon to be renowned African American novelist, essayist, play right, poet, and civil rights activist was born fatherless to Emma Berdis Jones. This epic writer’s name was James Arthur
Jones. Three short years after his birth, Emma Jones married David Baldwin a migrant a laborer and Pentecostal preacher. David Leeming informs us that James Baldwin was born into a very poverty stricken life filled with a stepfather with a very abrasive outlook on life (1) James Campbell notes that some of the early influences in young James Baldwin’s life were his stepfather, church, and his junior high and high school teachers. Baldwin remembers his father “locked-up in his terrors; hating and fearing every living soul including his children and his long silences punctuated by moans and hallelujahs and snatches of old songs while he sat at the kitchen window” (7). W.J. Weathersby writes in his book James Baldwin, Artist on Fire, David used his fire and brimstone style of preaching to keep the Baldwin family under his his reign of terror. David used both physical abuse and mental abuse to control his family, but it was the mental abuse that had a more devastating effect on James Baldwin’s life. David often referred to young James as being
“frog eyed” because his prominent eyeballs (7.)James felt portrayed with each of his mother’s pregnancies because once she left for the hospital James had no one to
Jones. Three short years after his birth, Emma Jones married David Baldwin a migrant a laborer and Pentecostal preacher. David Leeming informs us that James Baldwin was born into a very poverty stricken life filled with a stepfather with a very abrasive outlook on life (1) James Campbell notes that some of the early influences in young James Baldwin’s life were his stepfather, church, and his junior high and high school teachers. Baldwin remembers his father “locked-up in his terrors; hating and fearing every living soul including his children and his long silences punctuated by moans and hallelujahs and snatches of old songs while he sat at the kitchen window” (7). W.J. Weathersby writes in his book James Baldwin, Artist on Fire, David used his fire and brimstone style of preaching to keep the Baldwin family under his his reign of terror. David used both physical abuse and mental abuse to control his family, but it was the mental abuse that had a more devastating effect on James Baldwin’s life. David often referred to young James as being
“frog eyed” because his prominent eyeballs (7.)James felt portrayed with each of his mother’s pregnancies because once she left for the hospital James had no one to
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