Albert, Richard N. "The Jazz-Blues Motif in Baldwin's 'Sonny's Blues'," in College Literature, Spring, 1984, pp. 178-85.
This article discusses the use that Baldwin makes of music in "Sonny's Blues," and explains the role that jazz and blues play in the African-American tradition.
Bone, Robert A. The Negro Novel in America Yale University Press, 1958.
A classic, if somewhat dated, historical evaluation of the place of the novel in the African-American literary tradition and the place of African-American novels in American literary history. A "Postscript" concentrates specifically on James Baldwin,
Hakutam, Yoshinobu, and Robert Butler. The City in African-American Literature, Farleigh Dickinson University Press, 1995.
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