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Go Tell It on the Mountain

By James Baldwin

Go Tell It on the Mountain Contemporary literature

Go Tell It on the Mountain

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'Go back to where you started, or as far back as you can, examine all of it, travel your road again and tell the truth about it. Sing or shout or testify or keep it to yourself: but know whence you came.' Originally published in 1953, Go Tell it on the Mountain was James Baldwin's first major work, based in part on his own childhood in Harlem. With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating symbolic power and a rage that is at once unrelenting and compassionate, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's discovery of the terms of his identity as the stepson of the minister of a Pentecostal storefront church in Harlem. Baldwin's rendering of his protagonist's spiritual, sexual and moral struggle towards self-invention opened new possibilities in the American language and in the way Americans understood themselves.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
264
Release Date:
2016-02-04
Publication Date:
2016-02-04
Publisher:
Everyman
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1841593710
ISBN13:
9781841593715
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
392 g
Height:
128 cm
Width:
211 cm
Thickness:
25 cm
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