Baldwin and “the American Confusion” 53 colm tóibín 3. Stranger at Home James Baldwin on What It Means to Be an American 35 cheryl a. Introduction America and Beyond 1 cora kaplan and bill schwarz Our deep thanks, ‹nally, to Sarah Chapman and David Glover. Colm Tóibín’s chapter, based on the plenary he gave at the London conference, ‹rst appeared in print in the Dublin Review it appears here with permission. Stephen Long’s photograph of James Baldwin appears on the cover with kind permission of the University of Massachusetts. In these times when publishers of all stripes face serious dif‹culties, we thank them. Tom Dwyer, Alexa Ducsay, and Christina Milton at the University of Michigan Press demonstrated a wonderful commitment to the volume from the start. Pauline Hubner prepared the index quickly and ef‹ciently.
Duncan Barrett provided quality help in the last-minute preparation of the manuscript. We are delighted that Eileen Ahearn, representing the Baldwin estate, was able to join us in London for the duration of the conference and to contribute to our discussions. Ruth Borthwick and Nicole King did much to help us think through the dynamics of the “Sonny’s Blues” event, and we are grateful as well to Michael Keith and the Rich Mix team. Departmental administrative staff, particularly Alistair Daniel and Beverley Stewart, and many students worked tirelessly on our behalf. Caryl Phillips and Magdalena Zaborowska were early enthusiasts for the project and guided us in our bid to secure funding. We wish to thank as well, for their generosity and support, the then-vice-principal of arts, laws and social sciences at Queen Mary, Philip Ogden the West‹eld Trust the Ford Foundation the British Academy the Arts Council of England, especially David Cross James Dunkerley and the Institute for the Study of the Americas and the European Collegium for African-American Research. None of this could have happened without the commitment of the School of English and Drama at Queen Mary and of our head of school, Julia Boffey.
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Identity/ Writing/Politics”-open to the public, free of charge, held at the Rich Mix arts complex in London’s East End: we thought it appropriate that our engagement with Baldwin should occur outside, as well as inside, the academy. The formal conference was preceded by a daylong workshop-“Sonny’s Blues. This formed the basis for the collection that appears here, its European provenance suggesting the “Beyond” of our title, though many transformations have occurred in the original papers between then and now.
In June 2007, twenty years after James Baldwin’s death, we organized at the School of English and Drama at Queen Mary, University of London, the ‹rst major conference to be held on Baldwin in the UK. Baldwin, James, 1924–1987-Criticism and interpretation. Includes bibliographical references and index.
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