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The Amen Corner: A Play Paperback - 1998
by Baldwin, James
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- Paperback
One of James Baldwin's two plays produced on Broadway, The Amen Corner pulses with the music and energy of America's black church and bristles with the pain and anger of racial injustice.
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Details
- Title The Amen Corner: A Play
- Author Baldwin, James
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 112
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Vintage, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 1998-02-17
- Bookseller's Inventory # 46398
- ISBN 9780375701887 / 0375701885
- Weight 0.27 lbs (0.12 kg)
- Dimensions 8.3 x 4.88 x 0.34 in (21.08 x 12.40 x 0.86 cm)
- Reading level 540
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Cultural Region: Mid-Atlantic
- Demographic Orientation: Urban
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Geographic Orientation: New York
- Library of Congress subjects Domestic drama, African American churches - Drama
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97035624
- Dewey Decimal Code 812.54
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Only a boy preacher who had grown up to become one of America's most eminent writers could have produced a play like The Amen Corner. For to his first work for the theater James Baldwin brought all the fervor and majestic rhetoric of the storefront churches of his childhood along with an unwavering awareness of the price those churches exacted from their worshipers.
For years Sister Margaret Alexander has moved her Harlem congregation with a mixture of personal charisma and ferocious piety. But when Margaret's estranged husband, a scapegrace jazz musician, comes home to die, she is in danger of losing both her standing in the church and the son she has tried to keep on the godly path.
The Amen Corner is a play about faith and family, about the gulf between black men and black women and black fathers and black sons. It is a scalding, uplifting, sorrowful and exultant masterpiece of the modern American theater.
For years Sister Margaret Alexander has moved her Harlem congregation with a mixture of personal charisma and ferocious piety. But when Margaret's estranged husband, a scapegrace jazz musician, comes home to die, she is in danger of losing both her standing in the church and the son she has tried to keep on the godly path.
The Amen Corner is a play about faith and family, about the gulf between black men and black women and black fathers and black sons. It is a scalding, uplifting, sorrowful and exultant masterpiece of the modern American theater.
