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

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zaborowska, Magdalena J. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2018.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Baldwin, James, > 1924-1987 > Criticism and interpretation.
Baldwin, James, > 1924-1987 > Homes and haunts > France > Saint-Paul (Alpes-Maritimes).
Baldwin, James, > 1924-1987.
Baldwin, James, > Criticism and interpretation.
Baldwin, James, > (1924-1987) > Homes and haunts > France.
Baldwin, James, > 1924-1987 > Homes and haunts > France > Saint-Paul (Alpes-Maritimes)
Homes.
Social Science > LGBT Studies.
Social Science > Ethnic Studies.
Literary Criticism > American.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > LGBT Studies > Gay Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > African American.
France > Saint-Paul (Alpes-Maritimes)
Biographies.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
collective biographies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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