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Author Brim, Matt, author.

Title James Baldwin and the queer imagination / Matt Brim.

Publication Info. Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, [2014]
©2014

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Description 1 online resource (x, 214 pages)
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-205) and index.
Contents 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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Summary "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"--Publisher's description.
Language English.
Subject Baldwin, James, 1924-1987 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Baldwin, James, 1924-1987 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJv4mk4rVHDcMt7RVGgh73
Gay men's writings, American -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
African American gay men -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
African American gay people -- Intellectual life.
Queer theory.
African American gay people in literature.
Gay men in literature.
Gay men's writings, American -- History and criticism.
Écrits d'homosexuels masculins américains -- Histoire et critique.
Homosexuels noirs américains -- Vie intellectuelle.
Théorie queer.
Homosexuels masculins dans la littérature.
Écrits d'homosexuels masculins américains -- 20e siècle -- Histoire et critique.
Homosexuels masculins noirs américains -- Vie intellectuelle -- 20e siècle.
Homosexuels noirs américains dans la littérature.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Gay & Lesbian.
African American gays -- Intellectual life
Gay men in literature
Gay men's writings, American
Queer theory
Gay authors.
LGBTQ+ authors.
Queer authors.
African American LGBTQ+ people.
African American gay men.
Theories.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Queer studies.
Queer literary criticism.
Literary criticism.
Critiques littéraires.
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 (e-book)
047212059X
9781322515212 (electronic bk.)
1322515212 (electronic bk.)
0472052349
9780472052349
9780472052349 (pbk. ; acid-free paper)
9780472072347 (hardcover ; acid-free paper)
047207234X
Standard No. 10.3998/mpub.6975932
AU@ 000056939373
DEBBG BV044185315
GBVCP 100379338X

 
    
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