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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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Blues for Mister Charlie, James Arthur Baldwin
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- Publicado en
- 1995
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- Título
- Blues for Mister Charlie
- Idioma
- Inglés
- Autores
- James Arthur Baldwin
- Editorial
- Bantam Books
- Publicado en
- 1995
- Formato
- Tapa blanda
- ISBN10
- 0679761780
- ISBN13
- 9780679761785
- Serie
- Etiquetas
- Ficción, Clásicos, Obras de teatro, Raza, Racismo, Literatura afroamericana
- Calificación
- 4,15 de 5
- Descripción
- 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.