ENG 332: Contemporary American Literature

While most critics have seen Go Tell It on the Mountain as focusing exclusively on the African American fundamentalist church and its effect on characters brought up within its tradition, these scholars posit that issues of homosexuality, the social construction of identity, anthropological conceptions of community, and the quest for an artistic identity provide more elucidating approaches to the novel. Trudier Harris's introduction traces the history of its composition and the critical responses after its eventual publication.

Includes relevant chapter: "Go Tell It on the Mountain: James Baldwin and the Politics of Faith"

Includes relevant chapter: "Go Tell It on the Mountain: Baldwin's Sermonic

Includes relevant chapter: "James Baldwin's Queer Utility: Black Gay Male Literary Tradition and Go Tell It on the Mountain"

Includes relevant chapter: "Painfully Obvious: Nakedness and Religious Words in James Baldwin's Go Tell It on the Mountain"

Includes relevant chapter: "The Tale of Two Cities in James Baldwin's Go Tell It on the Mountain"