詹姆斯·鲍德温蜚声文坛在很大程度上有赖于他的第一部小说《向苍天呼吁》。[1]哈维·柯蒂斯·韦伯斯特(Harvey Curtis Webster)曾说,鲍德温先生第一部小说的写作技巧称得上是炉火纯青,该小说充分体现了作者的写作才华和潜力。[2]黑人女权主义学者帕特里夏·希尔·柯林斯(Patricia Hill Collins)认为美国黑人女性整体遭受由种族、性别和阶级构成的交叉压迫;黑人女性的多重弱势身 James Baldwin’s reputation in the literary arena depended to a large extent on his first novel Call to Heaven. [1] Harvey Curtis Webster once said that Mr. Baldwin’s writing skills in the first novel are a formidability of the arts and that the novel fully demonstrates the author’s writing talent and potential. [2] Patricia Hill Collins, a black feminist scholar, argues that black women in the United States as a whole are subject to cross-cutting by race, gender and class; that multiple black women are vulnerable