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African Americans in literature --- Gay men in literature --- Race in literature --- Baldwin, James, --- Criticism and interpretation --- Baldwin, James Arthur --- Baldwin, Jimmy --- Bolduïn, Dz︠h︡eĭms --- Bōrudouin, J. --- Bōrudouin, Jēmuzu --- Болдуин, Джеймс --- ボールドウィン, J., --- ボールドウィン, ジェームズ, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Afro-Americans in literature --- Negroes in literature --- Baldwin, James --- Baldwin, James, - 1924-1987 - Criticism and interpretation --- Baldwin, James, - 1924-1987

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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 Bladwin and his work. Brim argues that Baldwin animates and, in contrast, disrupts both the black gay literary tradition and the queer theoretical entreprise 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.

Baldwin, James --- Gay men in literature --- Hommes homosexuels dans la littérature --- Homoseksuele mannen in de literatuur --- Queer theory --- Théorie queer --- Gay mens' writings, American --- African American gays --- Queer theory. --- History and criticism --- Intellectual life --- Baldwin, James, --- Criticism and interpretation --- Gay men's writings [American ] --- Gay men's writings, American --- Baldwin, James Arthur --- Baldwin, Jimmy --- Bolduïn, Dz︠h︡eĭms --- Bōrudouin, J. --- Bōrudouin, Jēmuzu --- Болдуин, Джеймс --- ボールドウィン, J., --- ボールドウィン, ジェームズ, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Gender identity --- Afro-American gays --- Afro-American homosexuals --- Gays, African American --- Gays --- Gay men in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Intellectual life. --- Gay mens' writings, American - History and criticism --- African American gays - Intellectual life --- Baldwin, James, - 1924-1987 - Criticism and interpretation --- Baldwin, James, - 1924-1987 --- African American gay people