James Baldwin and the Queer Imagination

• Tác giả: Matt Brim
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-0472120598
• Thông tin xuất bản: Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, 2014
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 online resource (226 pages).
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 372087
• Chủ đề: 1. African American gays--Intellectual life; 2. Gay men in literature; 3. Gay men's writings, American; 4. LITERARY CRITICISM--Gay & Lesbian; 5. Queer theory

Tóm tắt

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."