Blues for Mister Charlie: A Play Paperback - 1995
by James Baldwin
From the murder that marks its opening scene to the scathing dialogue that transforms racism in America from an abstraction to a palpable emotion that grips the heart, this award-winning play touches us all with its rare humanity and with its piercing vision of our nation, our times, and ourselves.
From the jacket flap
In a small Southern town, a white man murders a black man, then throws his body in the weeds. With this act of violence--which is loosely based on the notorious 1955 killing of Emmett Till--James Baldwin launches an unsparing and at times agonizing probe of the wounds of race. For where once a white storekeeper could have shot a "boy" like Richard Henry with impunity, times have changed. And centuries of brutality and fear, patronage and contempt, are about to erupt in a moment of truth as devastating as a shotgun blast.
In his award-winning play, Baldwin turns a murder and its aftermath into an inquest in which even the most well-intentioned whites are implicated--and in which even a killer receives his share of compassion.
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- Title Blues for Mister Charlie: A Play
- Author James Baldwin
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Pages 144
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Vintage, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 1995-04-25
- ISBN 9780679761785 / 0679761780
- Weight 0.34 lbs (0.15 kg)
- Dimensions 8.01 x 5.22 x 0.41 in (20.35 x 13.26 x 1.04 cm)
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Themes
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Library of Congress subjects African Americans, Racism
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 94023842
- Dewey Decimal Code 812.54
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