Nobody Knows My Name. More Notes Of A Native Son: James Baldwin

Being a writer, says James Baldwin in this searing collection of essays, requires `every ounce of stamina he can summon to attempt to look on himself and the world as they are`. His seminal 1961 follow-up to Notes on a Native Son shows him responding to his times and exploring his role as an artist with biting precision and emotional power: from polemical pieces on racial segregation and a journey to `the Old Country` of the Southern states, to reflections on figures such as Ingmar Bergman and Andrй Gide, and on the first great conference of African writers and artists in Paris.