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Me and My House : James Baldwin's Last Decade in France /

The last sixteen years of James Baldwin's life (1971-87) unfolded in a village in the South of France, in a sprawling house nicknamed "Chez Baldwin." In this volume, the author employs Baldwin's home space as a lens through which to expand his biography and explore the politics a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Zaborowska, Magdalena J. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2018.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foundations, facçades, and faces : through the glass blackly, or domesticating claustrophobic terror
  • Home matter : no house in the world, or Reading transnational, Black queer domesticity in St. Paul-de-Vence
  • Life material : haunted houses and welcome tables, or The first teacher, the last play, and affectations of disidentification
  • Building metaphors : "Sitting in the strangest house I have ever known," or Black heterotopias from Harlem to San Juan, to Paris, London, and Yonkers
  • Black life matters of value : erasure, overlay, manipulation, or archiving the invisible house.