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James Baldwin, emerging from the fertile cultural ground of the black church, regularly infuses his work with the rhetoric and the stylistic remnants of his experiences as the stepson of a preacher, who later ascended into the pulpit himself. Throughout his fiction, drama, and essays, Baldwin’s attraction to the church as a literary resource, replete with performance elements of spectacle, ritual, and poetry, is apparent.
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James Baldwin, emerging from the fertile cultural ground of the black church, regularly infuses his work with the rhetoric and the stylistic remnants of his experiences as the stepson of a preacher, who later ascended into the pulpit himself. Throughout his fiction, drama, and essays, Baldwin’s attraction to the church as a literary resource, replete with performance elements of spectacle, ritual, and poetry, is apparent.
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