Stranger at home: James Baldwin on what it means to be an American / Cheryl A. Wall -- Baldwin and "the American confusion" / Colm Tʹoibʹin -- "Over and over and over again": James Baldwin, Uncle Tom's cabin, and the afterlife of an American story / Briallen Hopper -- "Now describing you": James Baldwin and Cold War liberalism / Vaughn Rasberry -- Baldwin, prophecy, and politics / George Shulman -- Rendezvous with life: reading early and late Baldwin / Robert Reid-Pharr -- "History's ass pocket": the sources of Baldwinian diaspora / Kevin Birmingham -- Separate and unequal in Paris: notes of a native son and the law / D. Quentin Miller -- Exile and the private life: James Baldwin, George Lamming, and the First World Congress of Negro Writers and Artists / Kevin Gaines -- From Istanbul to St. Paul-de-Vence: around James Baldwin's The welcome table / Magdalena Zaborowska -- What is Africa to Baldwin? cultural illegitimacy and the step-fatherland / Douglas Field -- James Baldwin and Chinua Achebe: transgressing official vocabularies / Eleanor W. Traylor.
