{"product_id":"so-unimaginable-a-price-baldwin-and-the-black-atlantic-hardback-9780810149564","title":"So Unimaginable a Price; Baldwin and the Black Atlantic (Hardback) 9780810149564","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSo Unimaginable a Price\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eBaldwin and the Black Atlantic\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJohn E. Drabinski (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780810149564, Northwestern University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 December 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e216 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e“Reading \u003ci\u003eSo Unimaginable a Price\u003c\/i\u003e, I felt I was in the hands of a meticulous and patient guide who shepherded me through difficult questions and complex texts. Drabinski’s scholarship on Black Atlantic theory is a necessary and welcome addition to studies on James Baldwin.” —Mari N. Crabtree, Emerson College \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e “The distinctness of James Baldwin’s essays are to be found in its incandescent audibility. In his essays one can hear Baldwin wrestle with his thoughts; one can see the iridescence of his mind at work. John Drabinski’s \u003ci\u003eSo Unimaginable a Price\u003c\/i\u003e performs a double act of virtuosity. Drabinski brings to us the sound of Baldwin’s unique voice by producing piercing insight into how it is that Baldwin continues to shine the truest light on that difficult human condition that is being a black American.” —Grant Aubrey Farred, Cornell University\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eRereading Baldwin’s nonfiction in the context of midcentury Black Atlantic thought\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e James Baldwin’s nonfiction offers some of the most important and challenging thinking on the experience of race, history, and memory in the Black Atlantic world. Yet much of the scholarly literature on Baldwin’s writing reads his work from inside the sociocultural context of the United States, alongside key interlocutors like Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, and Lorraine Hansberry. \u003ci\u003eSo Unimaginable a Price: Baldwin and the Black Atlantic \u003c\/i\u003eshifts the critical frame, examining Baldwin’s work as part of a midcentury moment across the wider Atlantic world and tying his reflections to those of thinkers in the Caribbean and Africa to underscore the widening sense, as well as the particularity, of his critical claims. Who is Baldwin to the Atlantic world? And who, then, is Baldwin to the United States? John E. Drabinski recasts Baldwin as a Black Atlantic writer whose unique qualities as a thinker are enhanced by their similarities and differences with fellow writers of liberation in the global Black world.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePrefatory Notes \u003cbr\u003e Introduction: In Search of Black Life \u003cbr\u003e Chapter One: Black Atlantic Origin Stories \u003cbr\u003e Chapter Two: The Negative Dialectics of Race \u003cbr\u003e Chapter Three: Affect and the Afterlife of Memory \u003cbr\u003e Chapter Four: Vernacular as Remnant and Life \u003cbr\u003e Chapter Five: The Unimaginable Price of Home \u003cbr\u003e Chapter Six: The Racial Double Session \u003cbr\u003e Afterword: On the Ethics of Inheritance \u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments \u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Northwestern University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52555677434136,"sku":"9780810149564","price":71.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/so-unimaginable-a-price-baldwin-and-the-black-atlantic-hardback-9780810149564","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}