The Fire Next Time

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The Fire Next Time is a seminal 1963 non-fiction book by James Baldwin that powerfully examines race, religion, and the Black experience in America through two extended essays.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf essay collection
non-fiction book
adaptedAs stage productions
addresses moral responsibility
possibility of racial reconciliation
racial injustice
religious identity
author James Baldwin
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
criticalReception widely acclaimed
describedAs seminal work on race in America
form two extended essays
genre African-American literature
essay
non-fiction
hasISBN 978-0679744726
hasPart Down at the Cross
My Dungeon Shook
hasPerspective first-person
hasTheme critique of systemic racism
intersection of race and religion
love as a force for social change
includedIn modern American literary canon
influenced American social criticism
subsequent African-American writers
language English
literaryMovement African American literature
surface form: African-American literature

civil rights era literature
mainSubject African-American experience
civil rights movement
race relations in the United States
religion
notableFor critique of Christianity
discussion of the Nation of Islam
examination of race in America
influence on civil rights discourse
originalMediaType print
pageCount 128
periodCovered 100th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation
publicationDate 1963
publisher Dial Press
setting Harlem
significance key text of the civil rights era
subtitleOfPart Down at the Cross
surface form: Down at the Cross: Letter from a Region in My Mind

My Dungeon Shook: Letter to My Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Emancipation
targetAudience general readership
timePeriodDescribed mid-20th century United States

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