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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"James Baldwin"”.
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Ethical Vision and Bifocal Writing in the Twentieth Century: Primo Levi, Hannah Arendt, James Baldwin
… Levi (1919-1987), Hannah Arendt (1906-1975), and James Baldwin (1924-1987). It hinges on three key texts: Levi’s I sommersi i salvati, his 1986 work on the significance of the Holocaust in which he theorised the ‘grey zone’; Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem, her 1963 study of Adolf Eichmann which …
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Any Bodies' Protest Novel: Challenging the Politics of Canon Formation in the works of Nella Larsen, Zora Neale Hurston, and James Baldwin
James Baldwin, Nella Larsen, and Zora Neale Hurston are three authors who are very often read alongside one another in classrooms, book groups, and history. This grouping is often based on a system of seemingly arbitrary but identity-based categorical structures . Facets of the author' s assigned …
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Making White Guilt Fitting
This paper draws on the non-fiction writings of James Baldwin to introduce a novel conception of white guilt that is consistent with standard philosophical views that guilt is fitting only in cases of direct moral culpability while addressing practical criticism that white guilt is at variance with …
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The Song We Sing: Negotiating Black Nationalism And Queerness In James Baldwin's Late Novels
… his exclusion from the Black Arts Movement, James Baldwin includes in his later novels many elements of Black Nationalism, including a focus on black communities, black music, Pan-Africanism, and elements of separatism. In his inclusion of queer sexuality, Baldwin pushes against the typical …
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Motherwit through the Lives of Alberta King, Berdis Baldwin, and Louise Little
… lives of Alberta King, Louise Little, and Berdis Baldwin, the mothers of Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin respectively. Through an in-depth exploration of their lives I seek to accomplish the following: 1) Provide a more accurate and holistic understanding of Black American …
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Becoming
… portraiture series entitled Becoming. Using James Baldwin, Audre Lorde and Zora Neale Hurston as departure points, both the photo series and this academic explanative seeks to explore the question of what does it mean to become? Or in other words, what is the imperative to be who you are, to …
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Madly in Love: A Meditation on the Capacity of Love and Madness
… in the works of scholars and activists like James Baldwin, bell hooks, Lamarr Jurelle Bruce, and Therí A. Pickens, "Madly in Love" culminates in the introduction of the Mad Liberation Movement, a manifesto, and a call to action for building a neo-mad community grounded in radical love and …
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Interstitial passages: re-enactment of queer bodies of color in art and literature
… and displacement. I engage in the literature of James Baldwin and John Rechy and the conceptual art of Felix Gonzalez-Torres to conceptualize symbolic and physical in-between spaces where racial and gender alternative projects of community, same-sex desire, and love are possible. My analysis …
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Masculinity In Comparative Black Literatures
… explores a vitriolic disagreement between James Baldwin and Eldridge Cleaver and summarizes previous chapters. I have included an Appendix with other texts and issues which concern Black masculinity for future studies.
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Escrituras do corpo: leituras de uma poética queer Niterói
… Nomes já canônicos como Charlotte Brontë, James Baldwin e Virginia Woolf dividem espaço com nomes menos estudados na academia (mas igualmente importantes) como David Leavitt, Juliet Jacques e Nella Larsen, destacando o objetivo de ressignificar não apenas leituras contemporâneas, mas também …
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From Slave Ship to Supermax: The Prisoner Abuse Narrative in Contemporary African American Fiction
… survivors. This dissertation treats novelists James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Charles Johnson, and Ernest Gaines as the contemporary prison's literary intermediaries, as writers whose fictional narratives of jailhouse beatings, rape and wounding on slave ships, and state-sponsored execution are …
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How Hollywood Stole My Identity: African American Representation in the films Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner and Get Out
… in America is also interrogated. The works of James Baldwin, Theodor Adorno, and Max Horkheimer provide the theoretical background to this discussion of race as an element of identity, as well as within the framework of a culture industry. The second chapter explores the transition from Old …
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Black Bodies in the Open City: Precarity and Belonging in the work of Teju Cole
… literary cosmopolitanism, as exemplified by James Baldwin, at the same time as Cole self-consciously situates himself within that tradition. It is the insistence on the black body as site of publicity at once desirable and vulnerable, to paraphrase Butler, that allows Cole to make these …
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Richard Wright, James Baldwinn e Barack Obama : da ficção às narrativas autobiográficas e o dilema americano
… Richard Wright, anos 40 do século passado, James Baldwin, anos 60 do mesmo século e, por último, o atual presidente americano, Barack Obama, cuja autobiografia é bem contemporânea. O tema central da nossa investigação é tentar perceber que evolução histórica, que sintomas evolutivos, ao …
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Illegible Subjects: Knowledge and American Modernity, 1898-1985
… draws upon the pragmatist philosopher William James and his critique of “vicious intellectualism” to develop what I call American society’s legibility imperative and consider how it can be undone. My first chapter demonstrates how the late writing of Henry James militates against modernity’s …
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Performing texts; playing with jazz aesthetics
… Langston Hughes is not read as a "jazz poet"; James Baldwin is argued to be more concerned with jazz brothers than literary fathers; Frank Zappa becomes one of the keepers of the jazz flame. Between these ostensibly conventional chapters lives a counter-melody, an "autobiography" at times …
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The Ethics of Survival, or Notes Toward Jerusalem
… relation becomes breathable or coercive. Reading James Baldwin as a methodological teacher, the dissertation elaborates attuned reading as a disciplined practice of contact without capture: a mode of listening that does not compel disclosure. It advances resonance as a relational model of selfhood …
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The veil of the flesh : a phenomenological reading of Gregory of Nyssa.
… by carrying these reflections into a reading of James Baldwin's fiction, which identifies the historical and political complexity of affirming divine encounter in the flesh.
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Structural Inequality and Hypervisibility from Childhood to Adulthood in Baldwin’s Little Man, Little Man and Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric
… does not equate to being valued or understood. James Baldwin’s <em>Little Man, Little Man: A Story of Childhood </em>(1974) and Claudia Rankine’s <em>Citizen: An American Lyric </em>(2014)<em> </em>represent Black subjectivity as shaped and sustained through such social constructs that emphasize …