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“Digging Through the Ruins”

Just Above My Head and the Memory of James Arthur Baldwin

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[In] a sense the novel is a kind of return to my own beginnings, which are not only mine, and a way of using that beginning to start again. In my own mind I come full circle from Go Tell It on the Mountain to Just Above My Head, which is a question of a quarter of a century, really.

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  1. Ernest L. Gibson
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  1. Furman University, Greenville, USA

    A. Scott Henderson

  2. Furman University, Greenville, USA

    P. L. Thomas

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Gibson, E.L. (2014). “Digging Through the Ruins”. In: Henderson, A.S., Thomas, P.L. (eds) James Baldwin. Critical Literacy Teaching Series. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-619-6_15

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