Douglas Field is Senior Lecturer in Twentieth Century American Literature at the University of ManchesterJustin A. Joyce is Research Associate at Emory University, Atlanta, GeorgiaDwight A. McBride is Dwight A. McBride is Provost and Executive Vice President of Academic Affairs at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia

Introduction: In medias res, A Moment of Silence - Justin A. JoyceEssays1 "Esther Weren't No Harlot": Rape and Marriage in Go Tell It on the Mountain - Porter Nenon2 Errant Kinship, Traveling Song: James Baldwin's Just Above My Head - Jenny M. James3 "Something Unspeakable": James Baldwin and the "Closeted-ness" of American Power - David C. Jones4 James Baldwin, Lionel Trilling, American Studies, and the Freudian Tragic - Jay Garcia5 Disturbing the Peace of "Two Not So Very Different" Countries: James Baldwin and Fritz Raddatz - Gianna Zocco6 "Who's the Nigger Now?": Rhetoric and Identity in James Baldwin's Revolution from Within Davis W. HouckGraduate Student Essay Award7 Time to Tell - Dennis Ray Knight Jr.Dispatches8 The Process of Writing a Book about Baldwin's Self-Exile in Saint-Paul de Vence - Jules B. Farber9 Queering I Am Not Your Negro: or Why We Need James Baldwin More Than Ever - Robert J. CorberMulti-Media Feature10 Remembering Sedat Pakay 1945-2016 - David Leeming and Magdalena J. ZaborowskaBibliographic Essay11 Trends in James Baldwin Criticism 2010-13 - D. Quentin MillerInterview12 "He Gave Me the Words": An Interview with Raoul Peck - Leah Mirakhor

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