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Author Brim, Matt, author.

Title James Baldwin and the Queer Imagination / Matt Brim.

Publication Info. Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, [2014]

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Description 1 online resource
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: James Baldwin theory- seeing the invisible -- James Baldwin's queer utility: black gay male literary tradition and Go tell it on the mountain -- Paradoxical reading practices: Giovanni's room as queer/gay/trans novel -- What straight men need: gay love in another country -- Papas' baby: impossible paternity in going to meet the man -- Conclusion: The queer imagination and the gay male conundrum.
Summary 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."
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Language English.
Subject Baldwin, James, 1924-1987 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Baldwin, James, 1924-1987.
Criticism and interpretation.
Gay men's writings, American -- History and criticism.
Gay men's writings, American.
African American gay people -- Intellectual life.
Queer theory.
Queer theory.
Gay men in literature.
Gay men in literature.
African American gays -- Intellectual life.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Gay & Lesbian.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Subject Queer theory.
Other Form: Print version: Brim, Matt James Baldwin and the Queer Imagination Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, [2014] 9780472072347 (hardcover : acid-free paper) (DLC) 2014014522
ISBN 9780472120598 e-book
047212059X
9780472052349 paperback : acid-free paper
9780472072347 hardcover : acid-free paper
9781322515212 (electronic book)
1322515212 (electronic book)
047207234X
0472052349
9780472052349
Standard No. 10.3998/mpub.6975932