James Baldwin and the Queer Imagination
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 p...
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University of Michigan Press
2023
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| description | 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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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1122282025-07-17T09:59:55Z James Baldwin and the Queer Imagination Brim, Matt Literary Studies - American Literature Sexuality Studies thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSF Gender studies, gender groups thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSF Gender studies, gender groups 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. 2023-08-08T06:18:11Z 2023-08-08T06:18:11Z 2023-07-27T14:00:29Z 2014 book ONIX_20230727_9780472904082_80 OCN: 1196820461 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/64189 9780472904082 9780472052349 9780472072347 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/112228 eng open access image/png image/png image/png image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/64189/2/9780472904082.epub https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/64189/18/9780472904082.epub https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/64189/18/9780472904082.epub https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/64189/17/9780472904082.pdf University of Michigan Press 10.3998/mpub.6975932 10.3998/mpub.6975932 b7359529-e5f7-4510-a59f-d7dafa1d4d17 Big Ten Academic Alliance b5941080-3f20-4864-95c6-753acff7c9f4 9780472904082 9780472052349 9780472072347 Big Ten Open Books Ann Arbor [...] Big Ten Open Books open access |
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