Just Above My Head

Just Above My Head

Just Above My Head is James Baldwin's sixth novel, first published in 1979. 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, Paris.' The novel enmeshes racism with homophobia, with an 'explicit association of Birmingham and Sodom' . 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...
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quick facts
Author:James Baldwin
Genre:Novel, Fiction
Year published:1979
Number of editions:7

Honors and Awards

YearAward Nomination
1980 National Book Award for Fiction (Hardcover)
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Author of Just Above My Head

James Baldwin
James Baldwin
August 2, 1924 - November 30, 1987
Birthplace:Harlem, New York

James Arthur Baldwin was an American novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic. Baldwin's essays, for instance "Notes of a Native Son" , explore palpable yet unspoken intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in Western societies, most notably in mid-20th century America,...
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Additional works by James Baldwin
BookGenre
If Beale Street Could Talk Novel
Go Tell It on the Mountain Autobiographical novel
Another Country Novel
The Devil Finds Work Essay
The Evidence of Things Not Seen Essay
The Price of the Ticket Essay
Giovanni's Room Novel
A Rap on Race
Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone Novel
Notes of a Native Son Essay
No Name in the Street Essay
Little Man Little Man: A Story of Childhood Novel
The Fire Next Time Essay
The Amen Corner Play
Blues for Mister Charlie Play
Conversations with James Baldwin
Collected essays
Going to meet the man
One day, when I was lost
Jimmy's blues
dialogue
This morning, this evening, so soon
Blues für Mr. Charlie
Komnata Dzhovanni
Nobody Knows My Name Non-fiction
Early novels and stories
Vintage Baldwin
Zum Greiten nah
Baldwin's biographical booklets
Native sons
Meutres à Atlanta
Gypsy & other poems
story of Roland
Going to Meet the Man Short story
Another country
A dialogue
The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings
Nobody Knows My Name Essay
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Literary Genres

Novel
Novel

A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and...
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Fiction
Fiction

Fiction is the form of any narrative or informative work that deals, in part or in whole, with information or events that are not factual, but...
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