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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 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 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.
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About the Author:
Matt Brim is Associate Professor of Queer Studies in the English department at the College of Staten Island, CUNY.
Review:
"Theorists have debated for decades about issues such as sexual identity and orientation, desire, and what is gay, queer, or trans. Brim (English, queer studies, CUNY) adds a brilliant, provocative perspective to these conversations. He shows that gay and queer are far more complicated than most people imagine.... This is a great book, but the uninitiated may find it difficult. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers. --Choice Review
"In addition to being a lovely prose stylist, Brim is a dexterous and efficient guide through a variety of critical contexts and debates, making his book accessible to Baldwin fans only passingly familiar with queer theory, as well as to queer academics and students new to Baldwin’s work."
---Lambda Literary Review (Sam Huber Lambda Literary Review)
"In addition to being a lovely prose stylist, Brim is a dexterous and efficient guide through a variety of critical contexts and debates, making his book accessible to Baldwin fans only passingly familiar with queer theory, as well as to queer academics and students new to Baldwin’s work."
---Lambda Literary Review (Sam Huber Lambda Literary Review)
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- PublisherUniversity of Michigan Press
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 047207234X
- ISBN 13 9780472072347
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages228
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