Wrestling with The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name: John, Elisha, and the Master Bryan R. The South in Go Tell It on the Mountain: Baldwin’s personal confrontation Horace Porter 4.

A glimpse of the hidden God: dialectical visions in Baldwin’s Go Tell It on the Mountain Michael F. Treatment of homosexual identity and its shifting construction Contentsġ.

Incorporation of current critical methods of analysis.

New approaches to Baldwin’s first novel.

May uncovers the shifting identities throughout the work and Keith Clark explores the quest of the characters for male communitas. Washington argues that the text has much to do with the uncovering of sexual identity Vivian M. Lynch re-evaluates the religious centre of the novel Bryan R. Trudier Harris’s introduction traces the history of its composition and the critical responses after its eventual publication Michael F.

While most critics have seen it as focusing exclusively on the African American fundamentalist church and its effect on characters brought up within its tradition, these scholars posit that issues of homosexuality, the social construction of identity, anthropological conceptions of community, and the quest for an artistic identity provide more elucidating approaches to the novel. James Baldwin’s first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain, has gained a wide readership and much critical acclaim since its publication in 1953.

South of Tradition by Trudier Harris