Nothing Personal: James Baldwin, Richard Avedon, and the pursuit of Celebrity

• Caryl Phillips ^[1]
  1. [1] Yale University

     Yale University

     Town of New Haven, Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: Ariel: A Review of International English Literature, ISSN 0004-1327, ISSN-e 1920-1222, Vol. 48, Nº. 3-4, 2017 (Ejemplar dedicado a: special issue on Caryl Phillips), págs. 13-28
• Idioma: inglés
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  • This article reflects on literary celebrity through an examination of James Baldwin's artistic career, especially his collaboration with American photographer Richard Avedon in a book entitled "Nothing Personal". Baldwin's case is used to analyze a changing publishing world, which has been characterized for the last few years by a form of indifference toward writers of serious literature.