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 p...

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Main Author:	Brim, Matt (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Ann Arbor, Mich. University of Michigan Press 2014
Subjects:	Baldwin, James > 1924-1987 Homosexualität > Motiv
Online Access:	Inhaltsverzeichnis Klappentext
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.
Physical Description:	X, 214 pages
ISBN:	9780472072347 9780472052349 9780472120598