James Baldwin now
By: edited by Dwight A. McBride.
Contributors: McBride, Dwight A.
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 427
Subjects: Baldwin, James, 1924- -- Criticism and interpretation; Modernism (Literature) -- United States; African Americans in literature; Gay men in literature; Exiles in literature; Race in literature; Sex in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 393-409) and index.
Table of contents: title: White fantasies of desire: Baldwin and the racial identities of sexuality / Marlon B. Ross; title: Now more than ever: James Baldwin and the critique of white liberalism / Rebecca Aanerud; title: Finding the words: Baldwin, race consciousness, and democratic theory / Lawrie Balfour; title: Culture, rhetoric, and queer identity: James Baldwin and the identity politics of race and sexuality / William J. Spurlin; title: Of mimicry and (little man little) man: toward a queersighted theory of black childhood / Nicholas Boggs; title: Sexual exiles: James Baldwin and Another country / James A. Dievler; title: Baldwin's cosmopolitan loneliness / James Darsey; title: "Alas, poor Richard!": transatlantic Baldwin, the politics of forgetting, and the project of modernity / Michelle M. Wright; title: The parvenu Baldwin and the other side of redemption: modernity, race, sexuality, and the Cold War / Roderick A. Ferguson; title: (Pro)creating imaginative spaces and other queer acts: Randal Kenan's A visitation of spirits and its revival of James Baldwin's absent black gay man in Giovanni's room / Sharon Patricia Holland; title: "I'm not entirely what I look like": Richard Wright, James Baldwin, and the hegemony of vision; or, Jimmy's FBEye blues / Maurice Wallace; title: Life according to the beat: James Baldwin, Bessie Smith, and the perilous sounds of love / Josh Kun; title: The discovery of what it means to be a witness: James Baldwin's dialectics of difference / Joshua L. Miller; title: Selfhood and strategy in notes of a Native son / Lauren Rusk.