In The Fire This Time, Part 1 is “Legacy,” or thoughts on the past Part 2 is “Reckoning,” grappling with current events Part 3 is “Jubilee,” or visions of the future. Ward’s introduction also explains how she arranged this anthology, like Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time, according to time.
Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time, among other works, resounds with Ward and other writers in the anthology, many of whom quote Baldwin for his incisive, poetic wisdom about America’s racial landscape. After the death of unarmed black teenager Trayvon Martin, Ward found solace in the work of James Baldwin. In her introduction, Ward foregrounds the intention behind the anthology.
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