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Little man, little man : a story of childhood

Title
Little man, little man : a story of childhood / James Baldwin ; with illustrations by Yoran Cazac ; edited by Nicholas Boggs and Jennifer DeVere Brody ; foreword by Tejan Karefa-Smart ; afterword by Aisha Karefa-Smart.
Author
Baldwin, James, 1924-1987,
Publication
  • Durham : Duke University Press, 2018.
  • ©2018

Details

Additional Authors
  • Boggs, Nicholas, 1973-
  • Brody, Jennifer DeVere,
  • Cazac, Yoran,
Description
xxi, 98 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 26 cm
Summary
Four-year-old TJ spends his days on his lively Harlem block playing with his best friends WT and Blinky and running errands for neighbors. As he comes of age as a "Little Man" with big dreams, TJ faces a world of grown-up adventures and realities. Baldwin's only children's book celebrates and explores the challenges and joys of black childhood. This new edition includes a foreword by Baldwin's nephew Tejan "TJ" Karefa-Smart and an afterword by his niece Aisha Karefa-Smart, with an introduction by two Baldwin scholars. In it we not only see life in 1970s Harlem from a black child's perspective, but we also gain a fuller appreciation of the genius of one of America's greatest writers.
Subject
  • African American boys > Fiction
  • African American children > Fiction
  • African American children > Juvenile fiction
  • African Americans > Fiction
  • African Americans > New York > Juvenile fiction
  • Bildungsromans
  • City and town life
  • Coming of age > Fiction
  • Friendship > Fiction
  • Harlem (New York, N.Y) > Fiction
  • Harlem (New York, N.Y.) > Fiction
  • Neighborhood > Fiction
  • Neighborhoods > Fiction
  • Neighborhoods > New York
  • New York (State) > New York
Genre/Form
Bildungsromans.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Acknowledgments -- Foreword: Little man, Little man: we the children / Tejan Karefa-Smart -- Introduction / Nicholas Boggs and Jennifer DeVere Brody -- Little man, little man -- Afterword / Aisha Karefa-Smart.
ISBN
  • 9781478000044
  • 147800004X
LCCN
2018001470
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