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   22 hours ago · If Beale Street Could Talk. 1974. Set in Harlem, If Beale Street Could Talk is both a romance and a tale of suffering and heartbreak. It tells of the developing love story between a young Black woman, Tish, and a young Black man, Fonny.

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   22 hours ago · • Penguin Classics has reissued the iconic African American author James Baldwin’s books for his centenary year and a box set of James Baldwin’s principal novels including Go Tell It on the Mountain, Giovanni’s Room, and If Beale Street Could Talk.

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   Sep 25, 2024 · If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin 65,643 ratings, average rating, 7,509 reviews Open Preview

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6. james-baldwin-and-britain.manchester.ac.uk‘What was Baldwin doing in Hackney??’

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   Sep 27, 2024 · The Amazing James Baldwin: An exciting, interactive multi-media online course referenced by the Baldwin 2018 film dramatisation 'If Beale Street could Talk'. This course also references the 2016 Oscar-nominated documentary 'I Am Not Your Negro'.

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   Sep 19, 2024 · E-book: If Beale Street Could Talk Like the blues -- sweet, sad and full of truth -- this masterly work of fiction rocks us with powerful emotions. In it are anger and pain, but above all, love -- affirmative love of a woman for her man, the sustaining love of a black family.

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   What does if Beale Street could talk mean?

   • If Beale Street Could Talk is a novel that celebrates love, both between a man and a woman and between family members. It affirms this love and the sacrifices that come with it, which are dealt with less frequently in contemporary fiction.

   If Beale Street Could Talk - The New York Times Web Archive

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   Is If Beale Street Could Talk a love story?

   • At first glance, If Beale Street Could Talk seems to be 'just' a love story. However, despite its apparent simplicity, the novel is not as straightforward as it may seem. It is only 173 pages long (Penguin Classics 2019 Edition), and the sentence construction is simpler than in most of Baldwin’s other texts.

   A Literary Retrospective: If Beale Street Could Talk

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   Why is'if Beale Street could talk'considered a bad movie?

   • The film 'If Beale Street Could Talk' is criticized for having too much narration, which tended to ramble and over-explain instead of showing the story. Ed Skrein's performance as a caricaturish stereotype was also seen as badly overplayed in the writing.

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   Is 'if Beale Street could talk' based on a true story?

   • If Beale Street Could Talk is so vividly human and so obviously based on reality that it strikes us as timeless. It has no need of esthetic tricks and even less need of fashionable apocalyptic excesses.

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   What are the weaknesses of if Beale Street could talk?

   • If Beale Street Could Talk does not focus exclusively on the criminalization of Black males, their anger, and pain. Instead, it addresses the specific forms of gendered racism and racialized sexual violence experienced by women. The greatest strength of the novel by James Baldwin is its critical insight. However, in the film adaptation by Jenkins, this critical insight is not fully achieved.

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9. www.nypl.org › events › programsBook Discussion of If Beale Street Could Talk | The New York ...

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   Sep 19, 2024 · Published in 1974, Baldwin’s fifth novel is a love story about a young African American couple, Tish Rivers and Fonny Hunt, who are deeply in love and planning to marry. Their lives are turned upside down when Fonny is falsely accused of a crime he did not commit, leading to his imprisonment.

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    Oct 5, 2024 · A story that remains disturbingly poignant sixty years after it was first published, James Baldwin’s If Beale Street Could Talk is about abiding love in the face of injustice. Told from the perspective of its young heroine, this is the story of one family’s fight for justice in a society where institutional discrimination has the power to ...