If Beale Street could talk : [screenplay] / written for the screen and directed by Barry Jenkins ; based on the book by James Baldwin. by Jenkins, Barry

“…If Beale Street could talk.…”

If Beale street could talk /... by Jenkins, Barry, 1979-, Jenkins, Barry, 1979-

“…If Beale Street could talk.…”

If Beale Street could talk /... by Jenkins, Barry, 1979-, Jenkins, Barry, 1979-

“…If Beale Street could talk (Motion picture)…”
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If Beale Street could talk : a novel / James Baldwin. by Baldwin, James, 1924-1987

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If Beale Street could talk : music, community, culture / Robert Cantwell. by Cantwell, Robert, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…If Beale Street could talk: Darkling, a reflection on musical meaning ; Darkling I listen: making sense of the Folkways anthology ; The magic 8 ball: from analog to digital ; The invisible science: the spirit of calculation -- Feasts of unnaming: Feasts of, folk festivals and the representation of folklife ; White city elegy: modern and postmodern at the World's Fair ; The annual dance: festivity and culture in the dead -- Fanfare for the little guy: The Scots and the picts -- A harvest of Illth: blues. blackface, fossil fuel -- Parallax, the parallax effect: Representation and incorporation -- Folklore's pathetic fallacy: The culture power -- Habitus, ethnomimesis: A note on the logic of practice.…”
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James Baldwin and Toni Morrison : comparative critical and theoretical essays / edited by Lovalerie King and Lynn Orilla Scott.

Table of Contents: “…Revising revision: methodologies of love, desire, and resistance in Beloved and If Beale Street could talk /…”
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Witness to the journey : James Baldwin's later fiction / Lynn Orilla Scott. by Scott, Lynn Orilla, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Introduction -- Baldwin's reception and the challenge of his legacy -- Celebrity's return : Tell me how long the train's been gone -- Artist transformed : If Beale Street could talk -- Singer's legacy : Just above my head.…”
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From slave ship to Supermax : mass incarceration, prisoner abuse, and the new neo-slave novel / Patrick Elliot Alexander. by Alexander, Patrick Elliot, 1983-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: antipanoptic expressivity and the new neo-slave novel -- Talking in George Jackson's shadow: neoslavery, police intimidation, and imprisoned intellectualism in Baldwin's If Beale Street could talk -- Middle passage reinstated: whispers from the women's prison in Morrison's Beloved -- "Didn't I say this was worse than prison?"…”
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James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and the rhetorics of black male subjectivity / Aaron Ngozi Oforlea. by Oforlea, Aaron Ngozi, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…: negotiating cultural history and family legacies in Song of Solomon -- "Promontory of despair": Baldwin's gay sensibilities in If Beale Street could talk -- "Stop loving your ignorance-it isn't lovable": Tar baby and the rhetoric of responsibility -- Coda: Beyond Baldwin and Morrison.…”

Cross-cultural visions in African American modernism : from spatial narrative to jazz haiku / Yoshinobu Hakutani. by Hakutani, Yoshinobu, 1935-

Table of Contents: “…The Chicago Renaissance, Theodore Dreiser, and Richard Wright's spatial narrative -- The cross-cultural vision of Ralph Ellison's Invisible man -- No name in the street : James Baldwin's exploration of American urban culture -- If Beale Street could talk : Baldwin's search for love and identity -- Jazz and Toni Morrison's urban imagination of desire and subjectivity -- Wright's The outsider and French existentialism -- Pagan Spain : Wright's discourse on religion and culture -- The African "primal outlook upon life" : Wright and Morrison -- The poetics of nature : Wright's haiku, Zen, and Lacan -- Private voice and Buddhist enlightenment in Alice Walker's The color purple -- Cross-cultural poetics : Sonia Sanchez's Like the singing coming off the drums -- James Emanuel's jazz haiku and African American individualism.…”

James Baldwin and Toni Morrison : comparative critical and theoretical essays / co-editors, Lovalerie King, Lynn Orilla Scott.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Baldwin and Morrison in dialogue / Lovalerie King -- Baldwin's bop 'n' Morrison's mood: bebop and race in James Baldwin's Another country and Toni Morrison 's Jazz / Anna Kérchy -- Revising revision: methodologies of love, desire, and resistance in Beloved and If Beale Street could talk / Michelle H. Phillips -- Revising the incest story: Toni Morrison's The bluest eye and James Baldwin's Just above my head / Lynn Orilla Scott -- Watchers watching watchers: positioning characters and readers in Baldwin's "Sonny blues" and Morrison 's "Recitatif" / Trudier Harris -- Playing a mean guitar: the legacy of Staggerlee in Baldwin and Morrison / D. …”