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(Top) Plot introduction. Characters. Major themes. Allusions to other works. Allusions to actual history. Literary significance and criticism. References. Just Above My Head is James Baldwin 's sixth and last novel, first published in 1979. He wrote it in his house in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France. Plot introduction.
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Jan 1, 1979 · 4.43. 2,751 ratings366 reviews. James Baldwin’s final novel is “the work of a born storyteller at the height of his powers” ( The New York Times Book Review ). “Not everything is lost. Responsibility cannot be lost, it can only be abdicated. If one refuses abdication, one begins again.”.
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Just Above My Head is divided into five books. The first opens when Hall Montana receives word that his younger brother, thirty-nine-year-old Arthur Montana, a renowned gospel singer, has...
“Just Above My Head” by James Baldwin is a novel that explores the lives of a group of African American musicians in the 1950s and 1960s. The story is told through the eyes of the protagonist, Hall Montana, who is a successful gospel singer.
Jun 13, 2000 · Everything becomes unanswerable, unreadable, in the face of an event yet more unimaginable than one's own death. It is one's death, occurring far beyond the confines of one's imagination. Or, surely, far beyond the confines of my imagination.
Just Above My Head, Baldwin’s sixth novel, tells the story of a black gospel singer, Arthur Montana, and his brother and manager, Hall Montana, who narrates the account of Arthur’s rise to...
About Just Above My Head. James Baldwin’s final novel is “the work of a born storyteller at the height of his powers” (The New York Times Book Review). “Not everything is lost. Responsibility cannot be lost, it can only be abdicated. If one refuses abdication, one begins again.”
