If Beale Street could talk door James Baldwin

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6 juni 2018
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'One of the few essential novelists of our time' - New Statesman

Harlem, the black soul of New York City, in the era of Aretha Franklin and Ray Charles. The narrator of James Baldw…

'One of the few essential novelists of our time' - New Statesman

Harlem, the black soul of New York City, in the era of Aretha Franklin and Ray Charles. The narrator of James Baldwin's novel is Tish, nineteen, and pregnant. Her lover Fonny, father of her child, is in jail accused of rape. Flasbacks from their love affair are woven into the compelling struggle of two families to win justice for Fonny. To this love story Baldwin brings a spare and impassioned intensity, charging it with universal resonance and power.

'If Beale Street Could Talk affirms not only love between a man and a woman, but love of a type that is dealt with only rarely in contemporary fiction - that between members of a family' - Joyce Carol Oates

If Beale Street could talk door James Baldwin

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Alonzo Hunt (Fonny):

Fonny also notices the racism, but he reacts different then Tish. Fonny gets angry about the racism. He thinks every white man has bad intentions. This becomes clear in a conversation between Tish and Fonny. In this conversation Tish tells Fonny the woman who was raped disappeared. This means they can’t persuade her to change her testimony. Fonny gets very angry and thinks the D.A.’s office gave her money to get away. When Tish tells him to listen he says: ‘’Listen to what? What are we going to do about that fucking lawyer? He don’t give a shit about me, he don’t give a shit about nobody! You want me to die in here? You know what’s happening to me, to me, to me in here?’’ (page 131) This shows the distrust Fonny has in white men, like the lawyer. This reaction is extreme, because he’s in a very bad position, in a very bad place, but this reaction does show how he thinks about racism.