ZfL INFO 72/2025: Neu im Open Access: European Baldwins

Table of contents

Introductions

• Hic Sunt Dracones: An Editorial Preface on the American Conundrum
  Justin A. Joyce | 1–6
• “A new sense of life’s possibilities”: European Baldwins
  Remo Verdickt, Pieter Vermeulen, Gianna Zocco | 7–24

Feature Essay

• “Each of Us Contains the Other”: My Lives with James Baldwin
  Magdalena J. Zaborowska | 25–44

Essays

• The New German Baldwin and His Company: A Comparative Study of the Paratexts in dtv’s Edition of James Baldwin
  Gianna Zocco | 45–73
• Baldwin’s European Digital Circulation: More Tweets of a Native Sons
  Remo Verdickt, Jonathan Hoebeke | 74–103
• Baldwin in Spain: Reception, Censorship, and Political (Mis)appropriations
  Jordi Cornellà-Detrell | 104–130
• Confessions of Bad Faith: Giovanni’s Room as James Baldwin’s Response to European Existentialism
  Sonja Pyykkö | 131–152
• Baldwin’s Postcolonial Turn. Black Families from Moynihan to No Name in the Street
  Gerald David Naughton | 153–177

Graduate Student Essay Award Winner

• It’s Not All Black and White: Dutch Translations of The Fire Next Time
  Katinka Zeven | 178–199

Interviews

• Witness to a World in Crisis: An Interview with René Aguigah
  Remo Verdickt | 200–211
• “I was a witness”: An Interview with Jack Hazan
  John Livesey | 212–221
• “Translating is also a way of doing justice”: A Survey of Baldwin’s European Translators
  Remo Verdickt | 222–234

From the Field

• Baldwin and Britain: Emerging Insights
  Isabel Taube | 235–255

Dispatches

• Closets Foreign and Familiar: Giovanni’s Room at the International Theater of Amsterdam
  Monica B. Pearl | 256–263
• To Resonate Still: A Letter to James Baldwin
  Yousra Benfquih | 264–269
• In the Family: Sonic Black Queer Genealogies and No More Water: The Gospel of James Baldwin
  Rebecca Wanzo | 270–274
• Exhibition Review: This Morning, This Evening, So Soon: James Baldwin and the Voices of Queer Resistance, Curated by Hilton Als and Rhea L. Combs
  Monika Gehlawat | 275–281

Bibliographic Essay

• James Baldwin’s Reception in France in the Twenty-First Century: Publishing Efflorescence and Political Relevance
  Claudine Raynaud | 282–305