Nobody Knows My Name
Book by James Baldwin
0-679-74473-8 Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son is a collection of essays, published by Dial Press in July 1961, by American author James Baldwin. Like Baldwin's first collection, Notes of a Native Son (publ. 1955), it includes revised versions of several of his previously published essays, as well as new material.
Essays
Essay title | Original appearance | Original title/adaption |
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"The Discovery of What It Means to Be an American" | The New York Times Book Review, 25 January 1959 | |
"Princes and Powers" | Encounter, January 1957 | |
"Fifth Avenue, Uptown: A Letter from Harlem" | Esquire, July 1960 | |
"East River, Downtown: Postscript to a Letter from Harlem" | The New York Times Magazine, March 12, 1961 | "A Negro Assays the Negro Mood" |
"A Fly in Buttermilk" | Harper's, October 1958 | "The Hard Kind of Courage" |
"Nobody Knows My Name: A Letter from the South" | Partisan Review, Winter 1959 | |
"Faulkner and Desegregation | Partisan Review, Fall 1956 | |
"In Search of a Majority" | Adapted from an address delivered at Kalamazoo College, February 1960 | |
"The Male Prison" | The New Leader, December 13, 1954 | "Gide as Husband and Homosexual" |
"Notes for a Hypothetical Novel" | Adapted from an address delivered at an Esquire magazine symposium on "Writing in America Today," San Francisco State College, 22–24 October 1960 | |
"The Northern Protestant" | Esquire, April 1960 | "The Precarious Vogue of Ingmar Bergman" |
"Alas, Poor Richard" | Section 1: Reporter, 16 March 1961 | "The Survival of Richard Wright" |
Section 2: Encounter, April 1961 | "Richard Wright"[1] | |
Section 3: Nobody Knows My Name | ||
"The Black Boy Looks at the White Boy" | Esquire, May 1961 |
Critical reception
In The New York Times, Irving Howe called it a "brilliant new collection of essays." He adds, "To take a cue from his title, we had better learn his name."[2]
References
- ^ A French translation of "Richard Wright" appeared in Preuves, February 1961, entitled "Richard Wright, tel que je l'ai connu"
- ^ Howe, Irving (July 2, 1961). "Nobody Knows My Name". The New York Times.
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Works by James Baldwin
- Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953)
- Giovanni's Room (1956)
- Another Country (1962)
- Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone (1968)
- If Beale Street Could Talk (1974)
- Just Above My Head (1979)
- The Amen Corner (1954)
- Blues for Mister Charlie (1964)
- Going to Meet the Man (1965)
- "The Rockpile"
- "The Outing"
- "The Man Child"
- "Previous Condition"
- "Sonny's Blues"
- "This Morning, This Evening, So Soon"
- "Come Out the Wilderness"
- "Going to Meet the Man"
- Notes of a Native Son (1955)
- Nobody Knows My Name (1961)
- The Fire Next Time (1963)
- Negroes Are Anti-Semitic Because They're Anti-White (1967)
- No Name in the Street (1972)
- The Devil Finds Work (1976)
- The Evidence of Things Not Seen (1985)
- The Price of the Ticket (1985)
- Remember This House (unfinished)
- A Rap on Race (1971)
- A Dialogue (1973)
- Little Man Little Man (1976)
- Go Tell It on the Mountain (1984)
- I Am Not Your Negro (2016)
- If Beale Street Could Talk (2018; accolades)
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