Zaborowska James Baldwin's Turkish Decade

Erotics of Exile
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9240-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 412 Seiten

Reihe: e-Duke books scholarly collection

Shows that the decade Baldwin spent in Turkey is crucial to evaluating his contribution to American letters, especially to understanding the interdependence of race and the erotic in constructions of American identity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zaborowska, Magdalena J.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies: Homosexualität, LGBTQ+
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations ix

Preface: Sightings xiii

Acknowledgments xxv

Introduction: From Harlem to Istanbul 1

1. Between Friends: Looking for Baldwin in Constantinople 31

2. Queer Orientalisms in Another Country 91

3. Staging Masculinity in Dusenin Dostu 141

4. East to South: Homosexual Panic, the Old Country, and No Name in the Street 197

Conclusion: Welcome Tables East and West 249

Notes 265

Bibliography 331

Index 359

Über Autor(innen)

Magdalena J. Zaborowska is Associate Professor in the Program in American Culture and the Center for Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is the author of How We Found America: Reading Gender through East-European Immigrant Narratives; the editor of Other Americans, Other Americas: The Politics and Poetics of Multiculturalism; and a co-editor of Over the Wall/After the Fall: Post-Communist Cultures Through an East-West Gaze and The Puritan Origins of American Sex: Religion, Sexuality, and National Identity in American Literature.