James Baldwin and the queer imagination /

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"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 compl...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Brim, Matt (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, [2014]
Temas:
Baldwin, James, > 1924-1987 > Criticism and interpretation.
Baldwin, James, > 1924-1987.
Gay men's writings, American > 20th century > History and criticism.
African American gay men > Intellectual life > 20th century.
African American gays > Intellectual life.
Queer theory.
African American gays in literature.
Gay men in literature.
Écrits d'homosexuels masculins américains > Histoire et critique.
Homosexuels noirs américains > Vie intellectuelle.
Théorie queer.
Homosexuels masculins dans la littérature.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Gay & Lesbian.
Gay men's writings, American.
Gay authors.
LGBTQ+ authors.
Queer authors.
African American LGBTQ+ people.
African American gay men.
Theories.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Queer studies.
Queer literary criticism.
Literary criticism.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:"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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (x, 214 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-205) and index.
ISBN:9780472120598
047212059X
9781322515212
1322515212
0472052349
9780472052349

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