I Am Not Your Negro
Author: Baldwin, James
ISBN: 9780141986678
Publisher: Penguin
Year First Published: 2017
Pages: 144
Dimensions: 199mm x 130mm x 11mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
Baldwin's last, unrealized project comes to life, using his original words to create a radical, powerful and poetic work on race in the United States
To compose his stunning documentary film I Am Not Your Negro, acclaimed filmmaker Raoul Peck mined James Baldwin's published and unpublished oeuvre, selecting passages from his books, essays, letters, notes, and interviews that are every bit as incisive and pertinent now as they have ever been. Weaving these texts together, Peck brilliantly imagines the book that Baldwin never wrote. In his final years, Baldwin had envisioned a book about his three assassinated friends, Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King. His deeply personal notes for the project have never been published before. Peck's film uses them to jump through time, juxtaposing Baldwin's private words with his public statements, in a blazing examination of the tragic history of race in America.
ISBN: 9780141986678
Publisher: Penguin
Year First Published: 2017
Pages: 144
Dimensions: 199mm x 130mm x 11mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
Baldwin's last, unrealized project comes to life, using his original words to create a radical, powerful and poetic work on race in the United States
To compose his stunning documentary film I Am Not Your Negro, acclaimed filmmaker Raoul Peck mined James Baldwin's published and unpublished oeuvre, selecting passages from his books, essays, letters, notes, and interviews that are every bit as incisive and pertinent now as they have ever been. Weaving these texts together, Peck brilliantly imagines the book that Baldwin never wrote. In his final years, Baldwin had envisioned a book about his three assassinated friends, Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King. His deeply personal notes for the project have never been published before. Peck's film uses them to jump through time, juxtaposing Baldwin's private words with his public statements, in a blazing examination of the tragic history of race in America.
