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A man's voice is heard of one of the largest the United States of America, his face, unique and strong performance, his voice and his writings, Baldwin intent, thorn in an era, especially the nineteen sixties, all American conscience liberal climate especially easy to accept, puncture.
Even small push into the American black woman writer, publishing and academic focus on their work in 1980 after the literary background, although he published the book long work less, he never forgot his ultimate goal: to write well, is a good man.
Born in August 2, 1924, James Arthur Baldwin put forward, the Harlem area of New York City, the oldest of nine children. His mother, Elmar Berdis Jones gave birth to James, and some time she is single. He never met his biological father, and may even always know his identity. Instead, he thinks David Baldwin, his stepfather, because his father. David a factory worker and a shop in front of the preacher, who is the layman holiness Pentecostal Church pastor of five. When Baldwin was a toddler, David Baldwin, will prove to be the young James's presence, the bane of his mother married.
Though David Baldwin, James never feel safe or belong to the series. He has grown up in Harlem, which he described as a "Southern community become destitute and homeless in New York" street extremely difficult circumstances, grew up in poverty and under strict religious observances and impoverished environment, especially his mother's marriage after the aggressive fundamentalism from New Orleans minister seems to hate him.
The young man and his stepfather, show a strict rules, James's little love. "The relationship between, as a constant current source of tension in the growth period of Baldwin, notice some of his most mature work...... Baldwin show care, in spite of all this, as guards his eight young siblings.The requires the care of younger siblings and his stepfather's religious beliefs largely shielded the harsh reality of the boy Hallam life on the streets, in the nineteen thirties. "