My Dungeon Shook: Letter to My Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Emancipation

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"My Dungeon Shook: Letter to My Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Emancipation" is James Baldwin’s powerful open letter essay reflecting on race, identity, and the Black experience in America, addressed to his young nephew.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf essay
non-fiction work
open letter
addressee James Baldwin’s nephew
author James Baldwin
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
firstPublishedAsPartOf The Fire Next Time
genre African-American literature
essay
political essay
social criticism
includedWith Down at the Cross
surface form: Down at the Cross: Letter from a Region in My Mind
influenced discourse on civil rights in the United States
language English
literaryMovement African-American civil rights literature
mainTheme Black experience in America
emancipation
identity
race in the United States
racism
narrativeForm epistolary
originalPublicationYear 1963
partOf The Fire Next Time
period Civil Rights Movement era
publishedIn The Fire Next Time
setting United States in the 20th century
shortTitle My Dungeon Shook
subjectOf literary criticism
title My Dungeon Shook: Letter to My Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Emancipation self-link
tone critical
personal
prophetic

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The Fire Next Time subtitleOfPart My Dungeon Shook: Letter to My Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Emancipation
My Dungeon Shook: Letter to My Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Emancipation title My Dungeon Shook: Letter to My Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Emancipation self-link