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A review by booksgurrsandpurrs
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
challenging
emotional
hopeful
informative
reflective
slow-paced
5.0
The American Dream has therefore become something much more closely resembling a nightmare... pg 89
The Fire Next Time is composed of two letters Baldwin writes to his nephew on the centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation. Both are intimate and confessional as Baldwin contextualises the stark reality of "America celebrating 100 years of freedom too soon," (pg 10) through personal connections such as his belief that his father believed the terribly racist ideology that was hurled at him, to his spiritual epiphany that caused him to leave the church, and how oppression reaps cycles of violence.
This is a re-read for me but by the time I finally picked up this book to read it this month, I quickly read it three more times in quick succession.
The Fire Next Time is composed of two letters Baldwin writes to his nephew on the centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation. Both are intimate and confessional as Baldwin contextualises the stark reality of "America celebrating 100 years of freedom too soon," (pg 10) through personal connections such as his belief that his father believed the terribly racist ideology that was hurled at him, to his spiritual epiphany that caused him to leave the church, and how oppression reaps cycles of violence.
This is a re-read for me but by the time I finally picked up this book to read it this month, I quickly read it three more times in quick succession.