 First edition | |
| Author | James Baldwin |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Dial Press |
Publication date | 1979 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Pages | 597 |
| ISBN | 0-8037-4777-2 |
Just Above My Head is James Baldwin's sixth and last novel, first published in 1979. He wrote it in his house in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France.
The novel tells the life story of a group of friends, from preaching in Harlem, through to experiencing "incest, war, poverty, the civil-rights struggle, as well as wealth and love and fame—in Korea, Africa, Birmingham, New York City, Paris." [1]
The novel enmeshes racism with homophobia, with an "explicit association of Birmingham and Sodom". [2] [3]
It has been suggested that the novel links the trope of the internalisation of history to what W. E. B. Du Bois defined as the African American's "longing to attain self-conscious manhood". [4]
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