TY - BOOK ID - 638156 TI - James Baldwin and the Queer Imagination AU - Brim, Matt AU - Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan) PY - 2014 SN - 9780472072347 9780472052349 0472052349 047207234X 047212059X 0472904086 9780472120598 1322515212 PB - Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, DB - UniCat KW - Baldwin, James KW - Gay men in literature KW - Hommes homosexuels dans la littérature KW - Homoseksuele mannen in de literatuur KW - Queer theory KW - Théorie queer KW - Gay mens' writings, American KW - African American gays KW - Queer theory. KW - History and criticism KW - Intellectual life KW - Baldwin, James, KW - Criticism and interpretation KW - Gay men's writings [American ] KW - Gay men's writings, American KW - Baldwin, James Arthur KW - Baldwin, Jimmy KW - Bolduïn, Dz︠h︡eĭms KW - Bōrudouin, J. KW - Bōrudouin, Jēmuzu KW - Болдуин, Джеймс KW - ボールドウィン, J., KW - ボールドウィン, ジェームズ, KW - Criticism and interpretation. KW - Gender identity KW - Afro-American gays KW - Afro-American homosexuals KW - Gays, African American KW - Gays KW - Gay men in literature. KW - History and criticism. KW - Intellectual life. KW - Gay mens' writings, American - History and criticism KW - African American gays - Intellectual life KW - Baldwin, James, - 1924-1987 - Criticism and interpretation KW - Baldwin, James, - 1924-1987 KW - African American gay people UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:638156 AB - "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 paracoxically, 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"--Page 4 of cover. ER -