Article
The Fire This Time: Ta-Nehisi Coates’s “Between the World and Me”
Communication, Media & The Arts Faculty Publications
Document Type
Book Review
Publication Date
8-28-2015
Disciplines
Abstract
In 1963, James Baldwin published his seminal The Fire Next Time. The first half of this foundational work was a letter to his nephew regarding America and race. In 2015 the journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates published a letter to his son, also about America and race. The literary device employed is no coincidence. Toni Morrison has anointed Coates as the successor to James Baldwin, and while that is a heavy burden for any 40 year old to bear, it is one that he just might manage to handle with grace.
Citation Information
Yousman, B. (2015, August 28). The fire this time: Ta-Nehisi Coates’s “Between the world and me”. Counter Punch. Retrieved from http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/08/28/the-fire-this-time-ta-nehisi-coatess-between-the-world-and-me/
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