Blues for Mister Charlie
A Play
Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Black, American, Nonfiction, Entertainment, Drama
| Author: | James Baldwin | ISBN: | 9780804149747 |
| Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | Publication: | September 17, 2013 |
| Imprint: | Vintage | Language: | English |
| Author: | James Baldwin |
| ISBN: | 9780804149747 |
| Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
| Publication: | September 17, 2013 |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Language: | English |
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.
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.
