{"id":24270,"date":"2024-10-06T16:21:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-06T14:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.satiricon.be\/?p=24270"},"modified":"2024-10-06T16:21:00","modified_gmt":"2024-10-06T14:21:00","slug":"humainement-personnellement-la-couleur-nexiste-pas-politiquement-elle-existe-james-baldwin-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.satiricon.be\/?p=24270","title":{"rendered":"\u00ab\u00a0Humainement, personnellement, la couleur n&rsquo;existe pas. Politiquement, elle existe.\u00a0\u00bb (James Baldwin)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.satiricon.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/James-Baldwin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"212\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/www.satiricon.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/James-Baldwin.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.satiricon.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/James-Baldwin.jpg 212w, https:\/\/www.satiricon.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/James-Baldwin-182x300.jpg 182w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00c0 l\u2019occasion du centenaire de la naissance de l\u2019\u00e9crivain afro-am\u00e9ricain <strong><em>James Baldwin<\/em><\/strong>, le docteur en langues et litt\u00e9ratures \u00e9trang\u00e8res (universit\u00e9 de Paris-Est) Yannick M.&nbsp;Blec consacre chez Folio un essai biographique particuli\u00e8rement bienvenu \u00e0 ce militant talentueux de la cause des droits civiques men\u00e9e en partie aux c\u00f4t\u00e9s de Martin Luther King et de Malcolm&nbsp;X \u00e0 l\u2019intersection desquels sa pens\u00e9e se situait.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>N\u00e9 \u00e0 Harlem le 2&nbsp;ao\u00fbt 1924 au sein d\u2019une famille nombreuse dont il \u00e9tait l\u2019a\u00een\u00e9 de la fratrie, James Baldwin est l\u2019auteur de romans (<em>La Conversion<\/em>, 1953&nbsp;; <em>Si Beale Street pouvait parler<\/em>, 1974), de po\u00e9sies (<em>Jimmy&rsquo;s Blues<\/em>, 1983), de nouvelles (<em>Face \u00e0 l&rsquo;homme blanc<\/em>, 1963), de pi\u00e8ces de th\u00e9\u00e2tre (<em>La Chambre de<\/em> <em>Giovanni<\/em>, 1965&nbsp;: <em>Le Coin des Amen<\/em>, traduit par Marguerite Yourcenar, 1983), d\u2019essais (<em>Chronique d&rsquo;un pays natal<\/em>, 1955&nbsp;; <em>La Prochaine Fois, le feu<\/em>, 1965&nbsp;; <em>Meurtres \u00e0 Atlanta<\/em>, 1985), d\u2019enqu\u00eates et d\u2019articles (dans <em>Commentary<\/em>, <em>Partisan Review<\/em>, <em>Harper\u2019s Magazine<\/em>, <em>The Guardian<\/em>, <em>The New York Times<\/em>, <em>Playboy<\/em>..) qui sont autant de t\u00e9moignages poignants et de r\u00e9flexions sens\u00e9es sur la condition, la culture, la langue et le devenir de la population noire et m\u00e9tisse des \u00c9tats-Unis entre 1935 et son d\u00e9c\u00e8s survenu le 1<sup>er&nbsp;<\/sup>d\u00e9cembre 1987 \u00e0 Saint-Paul-de-Vence, en France, dans les Alpes-Maritimes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Homosexuel, il eut aussi \u00e0 subir des avanies li\u00e9es \u00e0 son orientation personnelle, ce qui n\u2019emp\u00eacha pas qu\u2019il connaisse le succ\u00e8s aupr\u00e8s du grand public et que ses prises de position soient souvent \u00e9cout\u00e9es&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;mais pas toujours entendues\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Men\u00e9e d\u2019un pas alerte, cette biographie conduit aussi le lecteur \u00e0 la rencontre de personnalit\u00e9s marquantes de la culture am\u00e9ricaine (Marlon Brando, Elia Kazan, Richard Wright, Truman Capote, Saul Bellow, Beauford Delaney, William Faulkner, Norman Mailer, Harry Belafonte, Sydney Poitier, Margaret Mead, Ray Charles\u2026)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Passionnant&nbsp;!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>P\u00c9TRONE <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong><em>James Baldwin <\/em><\/strong>par Yannick M. Blec, Paris, \u00c9ditions Gallimard, collection \u00ab&nbsp;Folio Biographies&nbsp;\u00bb, ao\u00fbt&nbsp;2024, 316&nbsp;pp. en noir et blanc&nbsp;+&nbsp;un cahier photo de 6&nbsp;pp. en quadrichromie au format 10,8&nbsp;x&nbsp;17,8&nbsp;cm sous couverture broch\u00e9e en couleurs, 10,40&nbsp;\u20ac (prix France)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Par P\u00e9trone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[77,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.satiricon.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24270"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.satiricon.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.satiricon.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.satiricon.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.satiricon.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.satiricon.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24272,"href":"https:\/\/www.satiricon.be\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24270\/revisions\/24272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.satiricon.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.satiricon.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.satiricon.be\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}