Prophecy and Doubt in <i>Just Above My Head</i>
Written in the aftermath of the civil rights era’s expansive hopes, James Baldwin’s last novel, Just Above My Head (1979), examines a fundamental issue, the choice between hope and skepticism, or prophecy and doubt. Baldwin approaches this issue by questioning two cornerstone ideas of his fiction, t...
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Manchester University Press
2015-09-01
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| Series: | James Baldwin Review |
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| Online Access: | https://jbr.openlibrary.manchester.ac.uk/index.php/jbr/article/view/4 |