Go tell it on the mountain - James Baldwin
GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN
By
James Baldwin
First Published in 1953
With an Introduction by Andrew O’Hagan
INTRODUCTION
‘The balloon of experience is tied to the earth,’ wrote Henry James in The American, ‘and under that necessity we swing, thanks to a rope of remarkable length, in the more or less commodious car of imagination.’ In 1949 James Baldwin was living in Paris – a measure of rope having been unfurled – yet his ties to Harlem grew stronger by the day. There was ...