Magdalena J. Zaborowska

Me and My House

James Baldwin's Last Decade in France

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Produktbeschreibung

Magdalena J. Zaborowska uses James Baldwin's house in the south of France as a lens through which to reconstruct his biography and to explore the politics and poetics of blackness, queerness, and domesticity in his complex and underappreciated later works.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. April 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 153mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 670g
• ISBN-13: 9780822369837
• ISBN-10: 0822369834
• Artikelnr.: 48580663

Autorenporträt

Magdalena J. Zaborowska

Inhaltsangabe

Abbreviations  ix Acknowledgments  xi Introduction. If I Am a Part of the American House
and I Am: Vitrines
Fragments
Reassembled Remnants  1 1. Foundations
Facades
and Faces: Through the Glass Blackly
or Domesticating Claustrophobic Terror  51 2. Home Matter: No House in the World
or Reading Transnational
Black Queer Domesticity in St. Paul-de-Vence  85 3. Life Material: Haunted Houses and Welcome Tables
or The First Teacher
the Last Play
and Affectations of Disidentification  145 4. Building Metaphors: "Sitting in the Strangest House I Have Ever Known
" or Black Heterotopias from Harlem to San Juan
to Paris
London
and Yonkers  213 5. Black Matters of Value: Erasure
Overlay
Manipulation
or Archiving the Invisible House  295 Notes  317 Bibliography  351 Index  377