Go Tell It on the Mountain
About this book
In one of the greatest American classics, Baldwin chronicles a fourteen-year-old boy's discovery of the terms of his identity. Baldwin's rendering of his protagonist's spiritual, sexual, and moral struggle of self-invention opened new possibilities in the American language and in the way Americans understand themselves.
With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating symbolic power, and a rage that is at once unrelenting and compassionate, Baldwin tells the story of the stepson of the minister of a storefront Pentecostal church in Harlem one Saturday in March of 1935. Originally published in 1953, Baldwin said of his first novel, "Mountain is the book I had to write if I was ever going to write anything else."
Subjects
- african american families
- african american men
- african americans
- african americans, fiction
- american fiction (fictional works by one author)
- american literature
- black people
- blind, books and reading
- children's fiction
- christian sects
- classic literature
- fiction
- fiction, african american & black, general
- fiction / african american / christian
- fiction / african american / general
- fiction, african american, general
- fiction / african american / urban life
- fiction / classics
- fiction / gay
- fiction, general
- literature
- men
- national black family month
- racism
- religion