Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.
Contents:
White fantasies of desire: Baldwin and the racial identities of sexuality / Marlon B. Ross -- Now more than ever: James Baldwin and the critique of white liberalism / Rebecca Aanerud -- Finding the words: Baldwin, race consciousness and democratic theory / Lawrie Balfour -- Culture, rhetoric, and queer identity: James Baldwin and the identity politics of race and sexuality / William J. Spurlin -- Of mimicry and (little man little) man: towards a queersighted theory of black childhood / Nicholas Boggs -- Sexual exiles: James Baldwin and Another country / James Dievler -- Baldwin's cosmopolitan loneliness / James Darsey -- "Alas, poor Richard!": transatlantic Baldwin, the politics of forgetting and the project of modernity / Michelle M. Wright -- The parvenu Baldwin and the other side of redemption: modernity, race, sexuality, and the Cold War / Roderick Ferguson -- (Pro)creating imaginative spaces and other queer acts: Randall Kenan's a Visitation of spirits and its revival of James Baldwin's absent Black gay man in Giovanni's room / Sharon Patricia Holland -- "I'm not entirely what I look like": Richard Wright, James Baldwin, and the hegemony of vision; or, Jimmy's FBEye blues / Maurice Wallace -- Life according to the beat: James Baldwin, Bessie Smith, and the perilous sounds of love / Josh Kun -- The discovery of what it means to be a witness: James Baldwin's dialectics of difference / Joshua L. Miller -- Selfhood and strategy in Notes of a native son / Lauren Rusk -- Select bibliography of works by and on James Baldwin / Jeffrey W. Hole.
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