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1 online resource |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Introduction: James Baldwin theory- seeing the invisible -- James Baldwin's queer utility: black gay male literary tradition and Go tell it on the mountain -- Paradoxical reading practices: Giovanni's room as queer/gay/trans novel -- What straight men need: gay love in another country -- Papas' baby: impossible paternity in going to meet the man -- Conclusion: The queer imagination and the gay male conundrum. |
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Print version record. |
| Summary |
Annotation The central figure in black gay literary history, James Baldwin has become a familiar touchstone for queer scholarship in the academy. Matt Brim s James Baldwin and the Queer Imagination draws on the contributions of queer theory and black queer studies to critically engage with and complicate the project of queering Baldwin and his work. Brim argues that Baldwin animates and, in contrast, disrupts both the black gay literary tradition and the queer theoretical enterprise that have claimed him. More paradoxically, even as Baldwin s fiction brilliantly succeeds in imagining queer intersections of race and sexuality, it simultaneously exhibits striking queer failures, whether exploiting gay love or erasing black lesbian desire. Brim thus argues that Baldwin s work is deeply marked by ruptures of the unqueer into transcendent queer thought and that readers must sustain rather than override this paradoxical dynamic within acts of queer imagination." |
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English. |
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Baldwin, James, 1924-1987 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Baldwin, James, 1924-1987. (OCoLC)fst00038941
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Gay men's writings, American -- History and criticism.
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African American gay people -- Intellectual life.
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Queer theory.
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Gay men in literature.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Gay & Lesbian.
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African American gays -- Intellectual life.
(OCoLC)fst00799180
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Gay men in literature. (OCoLC)fst00939161
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Gay men's writings, American. (OCoLC)fst00939170
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Queer theory. (OCoLC)fst01739572
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Brim, Matt. James Baldwin and the Queer Imagination. Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, [2014] 9780472072347 (DLC) 2014014522 |
| ISBN |
9780472120598 (electronic book) |
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9781322515212 (electronic book) |
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1322515212 (electronic book) |
| Standard No. |
10.3998/mpub.6975932 |
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