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The Amen Corner

A Play

A Play

By James Baldwin

By James Baldwin

By James Baldwin

By James Baldwin

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Feb 17, 1998 | 112 Pages

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    About The Amen Corner

    Only a boy preacher who had grown up to become one of America’s most eminent writers could have produced a play like The Amen Corner. For to his first work for the theater James Baldwin brought all the fervor and majestic rhetoric of the storefront churches of his childhood along with an unwavering awareness of the price those churches exacted from their worshipers.  

    For years Sister Margaret Alexander has moved her Harlem congregation with a mixture of personal charisma and ferocious piety.  But when Margaret’s estranged husband, a scapegrace jazz musician, comes home to die, she is in danger of losing both her standing in the church and the son she has tried to keep on the godly path.

    The Amen Corner is a play about faith and family, about the gulf between black men and black women and black fathers and black sons. It is a scalding, uplifting, sorrowful and exultant masterpiece of the modern American theater.

    About The Amen Corner

    Only a boy preacher who had grown up to become one of America’s most eminent writers could have produced a play like The Amen Corner. For to his first work for the theater James Baldwin brought all the fervor and majestic rhetoric of the storefront churches of his childhood along with an unwavering awareness of the price those churches exacted from their worshipers.  

    For years Sister Margaret Alexander has moved her Harlem congregation with a mixture of personal charisma and ferocious piety.  But when Margaret’s estranged husband, a scapegrace jazz musician, comes home to die, she is in danger of losing both her standing in the church and the son she has tried to keep on the godly path.

    The Amen Corner is a play about faith and family, about the gulf between black men and black women and black fathers and black sons. It is a scalding, uplifting, sorrowful and exultant masterpiece of the modern American theater.

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    I Am Not Your Negro
    Come Out the Wilderness
    Giovanni's Room
    Go Tell It on the Mountain
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    About James Baldwin

    James Baldwin (1924–1987) was a novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic. His first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain, appeared in 1953 to excellent reviews, and his essay collections Notes of a Native Son and The Fire Next Time were bestsellers that made him an… More about James Baldwin

    About James Baldwin

    James Baldwin (1924–1987) was a novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic. His first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain, appeared in 1953 to excellent reviews, and his essay collections Notes of a Native Son and The Fire Next Time were bestsellers that made him an… More about James Baldwin

    Product Details

    Category: Literary Criticism

    Paperback | $13.95
    Published by Vintage
    Feb 17, 1998 | 112 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780375701887

    Category: Literary Criticism

    Ebook | $11.99
    Published by Vintage
    Sep 17, 2013 | 112 Pages | ISBN 9780804149693

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    “He is thought-provoking, tantalizing, irritating, abusing and amusing. And he uses words as the sea uses waves.” –Langston Hughes

    “What style! What intensity! What religious feeling!….The man has mastered his rage and bitterness. He’s a marvel!” –John Cheever

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