Going To Meet The Man And Other Stories【電子書籍】[ James Baldwin ]

＜p＞＜em＞＜strong＞‘Everyone’s life begins on a level where races, armies, and churches stop. And yet everyone’s life is always shaped by races, churches, and armies’＜/strong＞＜/em＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞In these eight extraordinary stories of love, conflict, desperation and fear, James Baldwin shows people trapped by the roles they must play in society, and those who try and escape them.＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞From the child in ‘The Rockpile’ whose God-fearing father will not forgive his illegitimacy, to the adolescent who hides his sexuality from his community in ‘The Outing’, and from the down-and-out jazz pianist recovering from addiction in ‘Sonny’s Blues’ to the chilling initiation of a racist in ‘Going to Meet the Man’, these tales, first published in 1965, explore the subtle and profound wounds that discrimination leaves ? both in its victims and its perpetrators.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞‘He uses words as the sea uses waves’ Langston Hughes＜/strong＞＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜strong＞'Few, it seems to me, have driven their w．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る