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Blues for Mister Charlie
A Literary Fiction Novel by James Baldwin
Subgenres:
- Southern Fiction,
- Race Relations,
- Civil Rights Era
This book is for you if you're into...
- Plays that dissect race relations in the Deep South
- Stories where justice and compassion collide after a violent act
- Dramas confronting the legacy of brutality and shifting power
An award-winning play from one of America’s most brilliant writers about a murder in a small Southern town, loosely based on the 1955 killing of Emmett Till.
James Baldwin turns a murder and its aftermath into an inquest in which even the most well-intentioned whites are implicated—and in which even a killer receives his share of compassion.
In a small Southern town, a white man murders a black man, then throws his body in the weeds. With this act of violence, James Baldwin launches an unsparing and at times agonizing probe of the wounds of race.
For where once a white storekeeper could have shot a 'boy' like Richard Henry with impunity, times have changed. And centuries of brutality and fear, patronage and contempt, are about to erupt in a moment of truth as devastating as a shotgun blast.
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