![]() ![]() If childhood is often characterized (somewhat idealistically) in literature as a move from youthful innocence to adult experience, Baldwin appeared to be indicating that he had moved abruptly, sharply from one to another. “I was born dead.” The dark sentiment seemed to reflect Baldwin’s own despair over his childhood his family was poor, his parents were restrictive, he felt torturously out of place in the narrow world of church and school his parents wished him to occupy, and he learnt, from early on, that his blackness made him both invisible to white Americans in certain situations and monstrously, dangerously present in others. “I had no childhood,” James Baldwin informed a French journalist in 1974. ![]()
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