{"product_id":"the-fire-next-time-james-baldwin-9780679601517","title":"The Fire Next Time (James Baldwin)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA stirring, intimate reflection on the nature of race and American nationhood that has inspired generations of writers and thinkers, first published in 1963, the same year as the March on Washington\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e The finest essay I ve ever read.  Ta-Nehisi Coates, #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of the National Book Award winner \u003ci\u003eBetween the World and Me\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eWith clarity, conviction, and passion, James Baldwin delivers a dire warning of the effects of racism that remains urgent nearly sixty years after its original publication. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the first of two essays,  My Dungeon Shook: Letter to My Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Emancipation,  Baldwin offers kind and unflinching counsel on what it means to be Black in the United States and explains the twisted logic of American racism. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn  Down at the Cross: Letter from a Region in My Mind,  Baldwin recounts his spiritual journey into the church after a religious crisis at the age of fourteen, and then back out of it again, as well as his meeting with Elijah Muhammad, the leader of the Nation of Islam. Throughout, Baldwin urges us to confront the oppressive institutions of race, religion, and nationhood itself, and insists that shared resilience among both Black and white people is the only way forward. As much as it is a reckoning with America s racist past, \u003ci\u003eThe Fire Next Time \u003c\/i\u003eis also a clarion call to care, courage, and love, and a candle to light the way.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eJames Baldwin (1924 1987) \u003c\/b\u003ewas a novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic. His first novel, \u003ci\u003eGo Tell It on the Mountain, \u003c\/i\u003ewas published in 1953 to excellent reviews, and his essay collections \u003ci\u003eNotes of a Native Son \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Fire Next Time \u003c\/i\u003ewere bestsellers that made him an influential figure in the growing civil rights movement. Baldwin spent much of his life in France, where he moved in order to escape the racism and homophobia of the United States. He died in France in 1987, a year after being made a Commander of the French Legion of Honor.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Hardcover), Englisch, 112 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":66232177230173,"sku":"K089896968","price":22.6,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/8989696800001A.jpg?v=1792184986","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/the-fire-next-time-james-baldwin-9780679601517","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}