A Critical Study on Go Tell It on The Mountain and Giovanni’s Room Novels by James Baldwin

Abstract

In comparing Go Tell It on the Mountain and Giovanni's Room it seems very interesting to me to notice Baldwin's various moves. Go Tell It on the Mountain deals exclusively with Afro-Americans in the very limited setting of the home and the storefront church in Harlem, and the protagonist is very young. The novel focuses primarily on issues concerned with the history and life of Afro-Americans in Harlem. Homosexuality is only an underlying theme in the novel.