Hardy, Clarence E., III. James Baldwin's God: Sex, Hope and Crisis in Black Holiness Culture.(Book review)

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HARDY, CLARENCE E., III. James Baldwin's God: Sex, Hope and Crisis in Black Holiness Culture. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2003. xvi + 148 pp. $50.00.

Even in his own time, James Baldwin was a peculiar mix of the timely and the old-fashioned. His insistence on individualism could feel quaint as the country lurched towards politics and identities defined by black and white. Even fictional obsessions could seem out of step. When an editor suggested that he get rid of the "come to Jesus stuff" in Go Tell It on the Mountain, the comment reflected cultural ...

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