Walton M. Muyumba

Baldwin, the Diaspora, and the Critical Documentarian

Focusing on Baldwin’s later works from the 1970s on, this article posits that he began shaping an experimental nonfiction aesthetic that would allow him to “sing” lyrically, diasporically, and discursively while engaging in discourse with others. He improvised a means of enacting physically, essayistically, and cin...