Let's Talk on the Mountain, Native Son by Wright and Invisible Man by Ellison are listed as the models of African-American literature in the 1940s and 1950s. In the development of African-American literature after World War II, Baldwin played a connecting role and was a "truly indispensable" writer.
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James baldwin (1924- 1987) is an American black writer. Born in Harlem, a black community in new york. His father is a poor priest without parish support and has nine children. He is the eldest son. Because the family is poor and has little education, it mainly depends on self-study. /kloc-at the age of 0/2, he published a short story describing the Spanish revolution, and has been practicing writing songs and scripts since then. His father was bent on making him a priest and strongly opposed his creative activities. /kloc-began to preach in the church at the age of 0/4. Three years later, he claimed to have "seen through the hypocrisy of religion" and left the church. This experience had a great influence on him, and his later essays also had a didactic tone and passion.
Shortly after leaving the church, Baldwin made a living in what he called the "American industrial and commercial world", worked as a waiter and servant in restaurants, and wrote book reviews and essays in his spare time, some of which were later included in the collection of essays Notes on Indigenous Children (1955). 1944, he met richard wright, a black writer, and engaged in writing with the help and encouragement of Wright. Four years later, he followed Wright's footsteps and left the United States to live in Paris and Europe. During 1957, the Little Rock incident broke out in the United States when the police suppressed black demonstrations. Baldwin believes that as a writer, "the responsibility lies in the United States", so he returned to the United States to engage in writing and struggle.
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