ENG102.English+Composition.II.Honors.Gray

=English 102: English Composition II= toc
 * Professor Rhonda Gray**



This guide is designed to help you research James Baldwin's //The Amen Corner// and //Go Tell It on the Mountain//. It includes an index of scholarly sources that can be used. Included in the list are websites that will be helpful in your research. If you have any trouble finding these sources, please ask a librarian for help. Good Luck!
 * [|RCC Library Home Page]: Most materials found in this research guide are available at the library's home page.
 * Autumn Haag: Please contact me if you have any questions concerning this guide or research.

=Topics Related to Go Tell It on the Mountain and The Amen Corner=
 * Religion
 * Christianity
 * Community
 * Class
 * Motherhood/Fatherhood
 * Homosexuality
 * Authority

=Good Search Terms to Use=
 * James Baldwin
 * The Amen Corner
 * Go Tell It on the Mountain
 * Religion in literature
 * Christianity in literature
 * Homosexuality in literature
 * Race in literature

=Books = RCC's [|on-line catalog] provides access to the Library's collection of approximately 40,000 books, periodicals and audio-visual titles. In addition to the books listed below, the Boston Public Library holds a large number of books by and about James Baldwin.

By James Baldwin
//Go Tell It on the Mountain//. By James Baldwin. 1953. PZ4 .B18 GO4 //The Fire Next Time//. By James Baldwin. 1963. E185.61 .E195 //The Amen Corner: A Play.// By James Baldwin. 1968. PS3552 .A45 A8 //A Dialogue.// By James Baldwin and Nikki Giovanni. 1973. E185.625 .B34 //Collected Essays//. By James Baldwin. 1998. PS3552 .A45 A16 1998 //Early Novels and Stories//. By James Baldwin. 1998. PS3552 .A45 A6 1998 //Traps: African-American Men on Gender and Sexuality//. Edited by Rudolph P. Byrd and Beverly Guy-Sheftall. 2001. E185.86 .T72 2001. Includes the Baldwin essay //Here Be Dragons.//

About James Baldwin
//Native Sons: A Critical Study of Twentieth-Century Negro American Authors.// By Edward Margolies. 1968. PS153 .N5 M26 //James Baldwin//: A Critical Study. Edited by Stanley Macebuh. 1973. PS3552 .A45 Z8 //James Baldwin//. By Louis H. Pratt. 1978. PS3552 .A45 Z86 1978 //Black Women in the Fiction of James Baldwin//. By Trudier Harris. 1985. PS3552 .A45 Z69 1985 //James Baldwin//. Edited by Harold Bloom. 1986. PS3552 .A45 Z72 1986 //Critical Essays on James Baldwin//. Edited by Fred L. Stanley and Nancy V. Burt. 1988. PS3552 .A45 Z64 1988 //Black Manhood in James Baldwin, Ernest J. Gaines, and August Wilson//. By Keith Clark. 2002. PS153 .N5 C49 2002 //Exiled in Paris: Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Samuel Beckett and others on the Left Bank.// By James Campbell. 2003. PS3545.R815 Z613 2003 //James Baldwin//. By Randall Kenan. 2005. PS3552 .A45 Z75 2005 //The Hero's Journey. Edited by Harold Bloom and Blake Hobby//. 2009. PN56.5.H45H47 2009. Includes a chapter on //Go Tell It on the Mountain.//

Reference Books (in-library use only)
//Icons of African-American Literature: The Black Literary World//. Edited by Yolanda Williams Page. 2011. PS153.N5 I35 2011 //James Baldwin//. Edited by Morris Dickstein. 2011. PS3552.A45 Z72355 2011

Electronic Books
The library has recently added 20,000 online books from the vendor Ebrary. All books are simultaneously available to all RCC users.

[|Breaking the Silence: Toward a Black Male Feminist Criticism. By David Ikard. 2007.]

=Articles= Access millions of journal, magazine, newspaper and reference source articles through our research databases.

[|Literary Reference Center]
Literary Reference Center is a comprehensive database that provides users with a broad spectrum of information on thousands of authors and their works. Includes over 300 articles and reviews of James Baldwin's work.

[|Literature Resource Center]
Provides overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world. Includes over 200 articles about James Baldwin and his work.

[|Boston Public Library Literature Databases]
RCC students have access to these databases with an RCC Library barcode.

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=Streaming Videos= Full length and segment videos from Films On Demand.

[|James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket. 1990. 1 hour, 26 minutes.]

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Research guide prepared on October 2013 by Autumn Haag: ahaag@rcc.mass.edu