Cannery Row Anthropology Baldwin's personal reflections on movies

Baldwin's personal reflections on movies gathered here in a book-length essay are also an appraisal of American racial politics

and the unexpected thrill of opening a bookstore

in our era of immense uncertainty

the protest novel

On his travels he ponders Thoreau's eager seclusion in Walden Woods

Cannery Row Anthropology Baldwin's personal reflections on moviesSteinbeck's tough yet charming portrait of people on the margins of society, dependant on one another for both physical and emotional survival Unburdened by the material necessities of the more fortunate, the denizens of Cannery Row discover rewards unknown in more traditional society. Henry the painter sorts through junk lots for pieces of wood to incorporate into the boat he is building, while the girls from Dora Flood's bordello venture out now and