Go Tell It On The Mountain

A collection of critical essays on James Baldwin's Go Tell It on the Mountain.

In one of the greatest American classics, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's discovery of the terms of his identity. Baldwin's rendering of his protagonist's spiritual, sexual, and moral struggle of self-invention opened new possibilities in the American language and in the way Americans understand themselves. With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating symbolic power, and a rage that is at once unrelenting and compassionate, Baldwin tells the story of the stepson of the minister of a storefront Pentecostal church in Harlem one Saturday in March of 1935. Originally published in 1953, Baldwin said of his first novel, "Mountain is the book I had to write if I was ever going to write anything else." “With vivid imagery, with lavish attention to details ... [a] feverish story.” —The New York Times

"A consideration of Jephthah's daughter in Judges 11-12:7, using feminist and midrashic interpretations"--Provided by publisher.

The publication of James Baldwin's Go Tell It on the Mountain ushered in a new age of the urban telling of a tale twice told yet rarely expressed in such vivid portraits. Go Tell It unveils the struggle of man with his God and that of man with himself. Baldwin's intense scrutiny of the spiritual and communal customs that serve as moral centers of the black community directs attention to the striking incongruities of religious fundamentalism and oppression. This book examines these multiple impulses, challenging the widely held convention that politics and religion do not mix.

Am Beispiel des Romanwerks von James Baldwin wird aufgezeigt, wie schwarzamerikanische Literatur in zwei verschiedenen Sprachraumen von der Kritik rezipiert worden ist. Die Untersuchung prasentiert und erortert dazu in erster Linie die journalistische Buchkritik nichtakademischer Publikationsorgane und versucht damit, einen praktischen Beitrag zur eher theorielastigen Rezeptionsforschung zu leisten."

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Joachim Ringelnatz (1883-1934) veröffentlichte seine ebenso amüsanten wie abenteuerlichen Jugenderinnerungen »Mein Leben bis zum Kriege« 1931. Aus einer erfolgreichen Künstlerfamilie stammend, der Vater war Schriftsteller, absolvierte er nur unwillig die Schule, um ab 1901 seinen Lebenstraum zu verwirklichen – zur See zu fahren. Die nächsten Jahre führte er ein weltweites Wandereben, immer wieder unterbrochen von Versuchen, in einem bürgerlichen Beruf Fuß zu fassen, ehe er ab 1909 zum inneren Kreis der Schwabinger Boheme gehörte und erste Texte veröffentlichte. Nur zwei Jahre später nahm er sein Wanderleben erneut auf und arbeitete u. a. als Bibliothekar, Dekorateur und Fremdenführer, um sich unmittelbar bei Kriegsausbruch 1914 freiwillig zur Kriegsmarine zu melden.

Karl Spiegel: Märchen aus Bayern Erstdruck: Würzburg (Selbstverlag des Vereins für bayerische Volkskunde und Mundartforschung) 1914. Vollständige Neuausgabe. Herausgegeben von Karl-Maria Guth. Berlin 2014. Textgrundlage ist die Ausgabe: Karl Spiegel: Märchen aus Bayern. Wissenschaftliche Beilage zum Jahresbericht des Vereins für bayerische Volkskunde und Mundartforschung in Würzburg [e.V.] auf das Jahr 1914, Würzburg: Selbstverlag des Vereins für bayerische Volkskunde [...], 1914. Die Paginierung obiger Ausgabe wird in dieser Neuausgabe als Marginalie zeilengenau mitgeführt. Umschlaggestaltung von Thomas Schultz-Overhage unter Verwendung des Bildes: Georg Köbel, Chiemsee mit Fraueninsel, 1831. Gesetzt aus Minion Pro, 11 pt.

The story of John Grimes, a young Black man living in Harlem in the 1930s and his relationship with his strict storefront preacher-father, Gabriel, who had moved from the South to escape his past. The story also follows the difficult passage of the son of a stoically courageous mother to manhood amid the family's past from the Deep South to Depression-era Harlem.

Here are three different Christmas pageants complete with music, staging directions, scenery and costume suggestions, plus pointers about how to organize your event. The pageants are for grades K-8, but one also calls for adults and teens. The first pageant is a traditional Nativity play with carols; the second is an adaptation in verse in the style of medieval mystery plays; and the third is a dramatized service of lessons and carols with Eucharist. Some churches adopt one pageant as an annual production; others try a different one each year. Pageant 1: “Good News of Great Joy” – This is the simplest pageant in concept and uses the Isaiah text of the prophecies with scenes of the Annunciation, the arrival at Bethlehem, the shepherds, and the Magi. It is intended to replace the sermon or Liturgy of the Word, or stand alone. Pageant 2 “A Child of Might” – This production is based on medieval “mystery plays” with static staging that is easier than in pageant 1. However it doe use archaic English and requires memorization. It does not include the Magi, but introduces several characters not usually found in other pageants. Pageant 3 “People, Look East” – This version