“Forging a New Language”

This article examines James Baldwin’s late text The Evidence of Things Not Seen (1985) as one his substantial attempts at “forging a new language,” which he tentatively mentions in essays and interviews. As an unpopular difficult oeuvre, carries the imprint economy time, casting past into present, space, navigating across other geographies appraising serial killings children Atlanta’s poorest Black neighborhoods. suggests that time emerges earlier No Name Street (1972), result self-imposed exile Europe. then analyzes spatiotemporal logic specifics with reference to middle class, urbanization, ghetto, gentrification, colonized spaces.