Begin Again : James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for Today

基本信息

Format:Hardback 272 pages

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

Imprint:Chatto & Windus

ISBN:9781784744335

Published:14 Jan 2021

Weight:392g

Dimensions:145 x 224 x 29 (mm)

頁面參數僅供參考，具體以實物為準

書籍簡介

“不是一切都失去了。責任不能失去，只能放棄。如果一個人拒絕放棄，他就會重新開始。”詹姆斯·鮑德温

對美國種族不公正的嚴厲控訴--受詹姆斯·鮑德温的生活和工作的啟發--幫助我們理解當下，並想象一個新的未來的出現。

唐納德·特朗普(Donald Trump)擔任總統期間，Black Lives Matter的鬥爭和實現新美國的嘗試受到了挑戰，這位總統在白宮任職期間代表了美國在面對它對自己的種族謊言時的新失敗。

對詹姆斯·鮑德温來説，在民權運動之後，也出現了類似的企圖，迫使人們面對美國種族主義的真相，並以梅德加·埃弗斯、馬爾科姆·X和小馬丁·路德·金的謀殺案作為迴應。從1963年出版的《下一次火焰》到1972年出版的《街頭無名》，鮑德温--這位偉大的創造性藝術家，經常被稱為“革命的詩人”--成為一個更加公開的政治作家，這一變化帶來了巨大的職業和個人代價。但從這一旅程中，鮑德温帶着一種新的目標感出現了，即在面對幻滅和絕望時必須向前推進。

美國正處在一個十字路口。格勞德從鮑德温的著作中獲得了洞察力和靈感，他建議我們可以通過我們自己的承諾破滅和白人縮減的時代找到希望和指導。《重新開始》將傳記與歷史、回憶錄和對我們這個時刻的敏鋭分析無縫結合起來，見證了美國種族問題的艱難真相。它既是一次尖鋭的探索，揭示了種族、創傷和記憶的糾纏，也是對我們必須對自己提出要求以喚起一個更公正的未來的有力詰問。

《重新開始》是一種罕見的東西：一個即時的經典。

“令人難以置信的感動和激盪”——戴安娜·埃文斯

2021年斯托獎得主

2020年《時代》週刊100本書目之一

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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

'Not everything is lost. Responsibility cannot be lost, it can only be abdicated. If one refuses abdication, one begins again.' JAMES BALDWIN

A searing indictment of racial injustice in America - inspired by the life and work of James Baldwin - to help us understand the present moment, and imagine a new future into being

The struggles of Black Lives Matter and the attempt to achieve a new America have been challenged by the presidency of Donald Trump, a president whose time in the White House represents the latest failure of America to face the lies it tells itself about race.

For James Baldwin, a similar attempt to force a confrontation with the truth of America's racism came in the wake of the Civil Rights Movement, and was answered with the murders of Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. In the years from the publication of The Fire Next Time in 1963 to that of No Name in the Street in 1972, Baldwin - the great creative artist, often referred to as 'the poet of the revolution' - became a more overtly political writer, a change that came at great professional and personal cost. But from that journey, Baldwin emerged with a sense of renewed purpose about the necessity of pushing forward in the face of disillusionment and despair.

America is at a crossroads. Drawing insight and inspiration from Baldwin's writings, Glaude suggests we can find hope and guidance through our own era of shattered promises and white retrenchment. Seamlessly combining biography with history, memoir and trenchant analysis of our moment, Begin Again bears witness to the difficult truth of race in America. It is at once a searing exploration that lays bare the tangled web of race, trauma and memory, and a powerful interrogation of what we all must ask of ourselves in order to call forth a more just future.

'Begin Again is that rare thing: an instant classic' Pankaj Mishra

'Incredibly moving and stirring' Diana Evans

Winner of the Stowe Prize 2021

A TIME 100 Must-Read Book of 2020

A Washington Post Notable Work of Non-Fiction 2020

作者簡介

小埃迪·S·格勞德是普林斯頓大學James S. McDonnell傑出大學教授和非洲裔美國人研究系主任。格勞德是一些書籍的作者，包括《黑色的民主：種族如何仍然奴役着美國的靈魂》。他來自密西西比州的莫斯角，一個海灣沿岸的小鎮，畢業於喬治亞州亞特蘭大的莫爾豪斯學院。

Eddie S. Glaude Jr. is the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor and chair of the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University. Glaude is the author of number books, including Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul. He hails from Moss Point, Mississippi, a small town on gulf coast, and is a graduate of Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia.