Dissertations / Theses: 'James Baldwin'

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Hirs, Franz-Joseph. "De prediking van James Baldwin /." Kampen : Kok Agora, 1995. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb39249498m.

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Rocchi, Jean-Paul. "James Baldwin : écriture et identité." Paris 4, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2000PA040212.

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Plus qu’une étude sur la représentation des catégories raciales et sexuelles, et leur interaction, cette recherche sur James Baldwin s'intéresse aux voies que l'écriture emprunte pour transformer les identités et les mener au-delà de l'effacement et de la négation. Chez l'essayiste et romancier africain-américain, l'homosexualité est à la source de ce processus ou la conscience noire s'arrache aux repères spatiotemporels traditionnels et à la tyrannie de l'origine. Elle est le prisme à travers lequel Baldwin observe la fabrique des identités américaines, cauchemar transparent dont perce la vérité du pouvoir, le plaisir qu'il procure. Dédoublant le propre cheminement intellectuel de l'écrivain et le dessin que son œuvre déploie, cette thèse a pour emblème la métalepse, figure de l'inversion où le binarisme oppositionnel des identités se brouille ; elle suit, par ailleurs, une progression en huit qui par, ses tours, détours et retours sur elle-même, fait entendre comme en écho à celle de l'identité, la dissonante question de l'origine de l'écriture. En utilisant essentiellement les cadres théoriques offerts par l'hypothèse psychanalytique, la sociologie et la sémiologie, tout en s'inscrivant dans la perspective ouverte par les études gay et afro-américaines, « James Baldwin : écriture et identité » s'articule autour de trois images de la masculinité : le père, le fils et l'amant. Ils sont les porteurs de mémoire du texte dont ils mettent aussi en jeu la triade notionnelle que forment ensemble la transmission, la translation, et la transformation. Remontée de l'œuvre, depuis sa préhistoire jusqu'aux dernières pièces de l'héritage scripturaire, cette analyse des nouvelles, romans et essais de l'auteur de « notes of a native son » a pour paliers successifs les thèmes de la mémoire, la textualité, l'éthique de l'inclusion chère à Baldwin, ses exils et enfin cette parole noire et gay qui cinglait sur son écriture vers l'ile exondée de l'identité critiquée.

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Allen, Francine LaRue. "Reclaiming the human self redemptive suffering and spiritual service in the works of James Baldwin /." unrestricted, 2005. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-12012005-100203/.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Georgia State University, 2005. Title from title screen. Thomas L. McHaney, committee chair; Mary Zeigler, Warren Carson, committee members. Electronic text (164 p.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed May 4, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 147-164).

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Brantz, Colter A. "Location and loss masculinity in James Baldwin /." Laramie, Wyo. : University of Wyoming, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1317344031&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=18949&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Bezerra, Paulo Rogério Bentes. "Desejo, identidade e espacialidade em James Baldwin." Universidade Federal de Goiás, 2017. http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/7376.

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Walker, Natasha N. "An Erratic Performance: Constructing Racial Identity and James Baldwin." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2007. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_theses/22.

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This thesis analyzes James Baldwin's essays as a method for understanding racial identity and authenticity. By using Vetta Sanders-Thompson's racial identification parameters, I suggest that Baldwin's struggle with his identity as a black American is crucial to deposing the idea of a monolithic black experience, which opens up new ways of analyzing African American literature.

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Walker, Natasha Nicole. "An erratic performance constructing racial identity and James Baldwin /." unrestricted, 2007. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-04202007-170016/.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Georgia State University, 2007. Title from title page. Margaret Harper, committee chair; Christopher Kocela, Daniel Black, committee members. Electronic text (63 p.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed Oct. 11, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 61-63).

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Kouadio, Fily. "L'esthétique de James Baldwin face à l'élaboration des canons de la littérature afro-américaine." Clermont-Ferrand 2, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997CLF20009.

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Moore, Elizabeth Roosevelt. "Being Black existentialism in the work of Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, and James Baldwin /." Access restricted to users with UT Austin EID Full text (PDF) from UMI/Dissertation Abstracts International, 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3034939.

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Depardieu, Benoît. "L'économie de la fonction paternelle dans l'oeuvre romanesque de James Arthur Baldwin (1924-1987)." Paris 3, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001PA030117.

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Cette thèse se fonde sur l'étude des six romans publiés par James Arthur Baldwid et ce qui, dans le texte, nous est révélé de l'économie de la fonction paternelle, suivant une approche critique se référant à la psychanalyse et, principalement, aux écrits et concepts freudiens et lacaniens. La première partie, consacrée à l'étude des romans familiaux et à la dialectique oedipienne, explore les liens oedipiens qui régissent les configurations familiales dans les différents romans, en mettant l'accent tout d'abord sur le désir de la mère, puis la place occupée par le père, et, enfin, le complexe d'Oedipe féminin. Dans la deuxième partie, nous avons étudié le rapport pervers qu'entretient le sujet baldwinien avec le désir et la loi. Le sujet bladwinien, capturé dans les rets de l'imaginaire, s'aliène dans la relation à l'autre : l'autre du miroir, le frère, l'amant de la relation homosexuelle et l'autre race. . . This dissertation focuses on the study of the six novels published by James Arthur Baldwin and what is revealed in the texts about the economy of the paternal function, following a critical approach based upon the psychoanalytical writings and concepts of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan. The first part, dedicated to the study of the family romances and the dialectic of the Oedipus complex, explores the oedipal links which govern the family configurations in the various novels and focuses first on the desire of the mother then, on the position of the father and, eventually, deals with the feminine response to the Oedipus complex. In the second part, the perverse relation which the subject enjoys with desire and law is studied. The subject, captured by the imaginary, is alienated in relation to the other : the other in the mirror, the brother, the homosexual lover and the other race. . .

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Reddinger, Amy. "Domestic inversions, domestic interventions : mapping the postwar formation of home, school, and family /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9360.

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Allen, Francine LaRue. "Reclaiming the Human Self: Redemptive Suffering and Spiritual Service in the Works of James Baldwin." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2006. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_diss/6.

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James Arthur Baldwin argues that the issue of humanity—what it means to be human and whether or not all people bear the same measure of human worth—supersedes all issues, including socially popular ones such as race and religion. As a former child preacher, Baldwin claims, like others shaped by both the African-American faith tradition and Judeo-Christianity, that human equality stands as a divinely mandated and philosophically sound concept. As a literary artist and social commentator, Baldwin argues that truth in any narrative text, whether fictional or non-fictional, lies in its embrace or rejection of human equality. Truth-telling narrative texts uphold human equality; false-witnessing texts do not. Baldwin shows in four of his novels the prevalence of the latter narrative type. Within the fictional societies of Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953), Giovanni’s Room (1956), If Beale Street Could Talk (1974), and Just Above My Head (1979), Baldwin reveals how society’s powerful bear false witness against the marginalized through stereotyping social narratives. However, Baldwin uses his novels to show the humanity of the marginalized. In so doing, he connects his works, as well as the works of contemporary black literary artists, to the concept of Christian spirituality.

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Aubé-Côté, Alexandre. "La pensée intégrationniste : le cas de James Baldwin et son essai The Fire Next Time." Mémoire, Université de Sherbrooke, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11143/10533.

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L’année 1963 est centrale pour le mouvement des droits civiques puisque la popularité de Martin Luther King donne un nouvel élan aux luttes afro-américaines. En effet, c’est au mois d’août 1963 à Washington que le pasteur King prononce son discours I Have a Dream. Bien qu’il s’attaque aux lois « Jim crow » et à sa doctrine Separate but equal qui ségrége la société américaine. Par son message non-violent empreint d’amour, d’espoir et de résilience, King devient un porte-parole emblématique du mouvement des droits civiques et le porteur d’une pensée structurante au sein des luttes afro-américaines dans les années 1960, soit la pensée intégrationniste. À cette époque, le mouvement des droits civiques devient un mouvement populaire porté par différents acteurs. C’est le cas de l’écrivain afro-américain James Baldwin qui fait paraître en 1963 son essai The Fire Next Time. De manière plus spécifique, on peut dire que son essai The Fire Next Time vulgarise le discours intégrationniste. Nous proposons d’évaluer, dans notre mémoire, la contribution de James Baldwin et de son essai The Fire Next Time paru en 1963 à l’idéologie intégrationniste. D’abord, nous aborderons certains éléments de l’histoire afro-américaine concernant les premières formes de résistance des Noirs américains (1917- 1954). Ensuite, nous tenterons de cerner les éléments compris dans l’argumentaire de Baldwin faisant en sorte que son essai The Fire Next Time et les idées qui y sont comprises, sont souvent associés à l’idéologie intégrationniste. Pour finir, nous verrons que l’amour est l’ultime solution au « problème noir », selon Baldwin. Dans ce chapitre, nous nous intéresserons au concept d’amour et aux définitions qu’en donnent Martin Luther King et Baldwin.

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Sussman, Kathryn Judith. "Politics, aesthetics and diverse sexualities in the work of James Baldwin, Alice Walker and Toni Morrison." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/5602.

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The thesis investigates the ways in which James Baldwin, Alice Walker and Toni Morrison’s fictional portrayals of forms of love, eroticism and sexuality that are excluded or prohibited by social norms, destabilise heteronormativity as the only legitimate option for non-harmful and pleasurable sensual and sexual expression. It aims to situate Baldwin, Walker and Morrison in a continuum of African American authors, beginning with Harlem Renaissance writer Bruce Nugent – the first African American writer to openly explore the relationship between homosexuality and Blackness – that have examined the intertwining issues of transgressive sexuality and race in increasingly explicit ways. By highlighting the ways in which Baldwin, Walker and Morrison decentre heteronormativity, the project aims to uncover how their novels expose the systems of power and knowledge by which racial forms of oppression are maintained, thereby debunking both the notion of Black “authenticity” and Black sexual stereotypes. Finally, the project hopes to show how the process of “queering” heteronormativity in these ways effectively serves to legitimise all forms of love, eroticism and sexuality that are non-harmful, opening up a new trajectory for contemporary twentieth-century authors who delve into these themes. Theoretical Approach: The thesis will argue for a queer reading of Baldwin, Walker and Morrison’s novels that underscores the writers’ treatment of sexuality as a discursive construct. Specifically, this theoretical perspective looks to their legitimisation of alternative forms of love, eroticism and sexuality that are non-harmful – a process that, in each case, serves to counteract and denaturalise White heteronormativity as the only rightful option for sexual desire and practice. Through this approach, the thesis strives to reveal how by working to legitimise such taboo expressions, these writers deconstruct the idea of the “other” as aberrant, thus calling attention to the specific political and moral systems by which love, eroticism and sexuality are judged in the modern Western world. Chapter Break Down: Chapters one and two of the project situate my argument in the context of critical earlier American writing encompassing canonical fiction, including political protest and African American folklorist novels, political polemics, Puritan captivity narratives, slave narratives, political essays, and experimentalist fiction. Together, these chapters provide a detailed overview of discourses surrounding sexuality, considering what is socially determined to be sexually “perverse” as a shifting concept, the meaning of which changes in tandem with changes in social and historical context. They also extensively analyse Black cultural specificity, examining both the sociological genesis of Black sexual stereotypes that led in part to the justification of the modern slave trade and the subsequent impact of slavery on African American sexual practices. In chapter three, the literary analysis begins with a consideration of the broadened possibilities of sexual acceptability Baldwin puts forth in his anti-protest style of fiction, by examining relationships between characters that do not fit conventional racial or sexual stereotypes, their social contexts, and the narrative perspectives employed by the author. Chapter four examines how Walker’s work carries forward Baldwin’s ideas, by further opening up the spectrum of socially acceptable forms of love, eroticism and sexuality through her presentation of an even wider array of erotically transgressive characters, and her effort to write about them during sustained periods of American conservatism. In chapter five, I examine how Morrison complicates the traditional understanding of what constitutes legitimate sexuality by infusing positive elements into sensual and sexual acts that appear to be nothing other than violent, illegal or psychologically regressive, thereby exposing the impact of social and historical context on the individual, further emphasising the changing and discursive nature of sexuality. The thesis finally argues that Baldwin, Walker and Morrison’s particular depictions of alternative sexuality roll back into a bigger idea of human experience that claims as necessary a re-thinking of social norms based on ethical considerations, rather than arbitrary social codes of morality that lead to both racial and sexual discrimination. Their novels thus ultimately involve us in human issues of justice and responsibility beyond the boundaries of race and sexuality.

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Field, Douglas J. R. "The son of a preacher man : race, sexuality and religion in the work of James Baldwin." Thesis, University of York, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.274533.

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Röckl, Barbara. "Through a glass, darkly the mirror metaphor in texts by Richard Wright, James Baldwin, and Ralph Ellison." Frankfurt, M. Berlin Bern Bruxelles New York, NY Oxford Wien Lang, 2006. http://d-nb.info/996780343/04.

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Fattah, Nadia Abdel. "James Baldwin's Search for a Homosexual Identity in his Novels." PDXScholar, 1996. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/5231.

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James Arthur Baldwin (1924- 1987) is one of the two major writers who have dared write about black gay men and from a black gay perspective. However, his fame as a racial spokesman and his insightful analyses of race relations in America tend to distract attention from the fact that he has been one of the most important homosexual writers of the twentieth century. Intolerance and homophobia among black and white Americans often led to a misinterpretation or misevaluation of James Baldwin's novels. James Baldwin was very courageous to come out as a black homosexual writer during the period of the Cold War and the Civil Rights movement. However, his awareness of racism and homophobia in the American society, and his difficult position of being a public figure and a spokesman for the Afro-Americans left its traces in his novels and influenced his novel writing career. The purpose of the present study is to show that out of intolerance, ignorance, and homophobia the evaluators of James Baldwin's novels often did him no justice. Baldwin through his novel writing developed a homosexual consciousness for himself. This struggle of coming-out was his personal struggle and it was marked by his burden of the doubly oppressed. I argue that Baldwin's search for an identity as a black homosexual writer is reflected in his writing. He constructed his identity through his writing. This study attempts to show that Baldwin's development of a homosexual identity took place in stages during his novel writing career. An analysis of the novels Go Tell It On the Mountain (1953), Giovanni's Room (1956), Another Country (1962), and Just Above My Head ( 1979) will demonstrate his movement from dealing with homosexuality as an underlying theme to using it as a tool to protest against any kinds of labels in the American society. Baldwin believed that discrimination cannot cease as long as the categorization of people through artificial constructs such as the "Negro" or the "homosexual" exists.

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Oforlea, Aaron Ngozi. "Discursive divide (re)covering African American male subjectivity in the works of James Baldwin and Toni Morrison /." Connect to this title online, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1111690389.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Ohio State University, 2005. Document formatted into pages. Includes bibliographical references. Abstract available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center; full text release delayed at author's request until 2010 March 24.

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Cohens, Derrick D. "Blurring boundaries, embracing chaos: the politics of race and sexaulity [sic] in the works of James Baldwin /." Laramie, Wyo. : University of Wyoming, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1594497601&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=18949&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Lamons, Brent Nelson. "The Internal Odyssey of Identity: James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain, and History." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2006. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/2234.

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This study investigates how James Baldwin thought about history and treats his first novel as an important document in extricating his construct of the past. A close reading of the work reveals that it is an examination rather than a symptom of two powerful forces that dominate Baldwin's psychology, his father and his history. James Baldwin felt the individual interpretation of one's experience is just as important as the experience itself. The novel is an informative exposition of how people interpret their experience and how that interpretation affects their psychology. Through Go Tell It on the Mountain Baldwin recreates the personal history he knows little about and is afforded a psychological freedom he would have never known without its completion. This study illuminates how useful fiction is to one's historical conscience and perception. The research exposes how important a sense of history is to the formation of identity.

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WANKO, DAKAM FLORENCE. "Le theme de la chute chez les noirs d'afrique et d'amerique du nord : etude de james baldwin." Paris 4, 1987. http://www.theses.fr/1987PA040291.

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L'oeuvre de james baldwin presente parfois une vision calviniste de l'existence humaine, notamment la croyance a la predestination qui constitue un frein au developpement et a la realisation de l'etre. "le theme de la chute chez les noirs d'afrique et d'amerique du nord", se veut une etude de la condition du noir dans les oeuvres de james baldwin et dans la realite du monde. Dans la premiere partie, nous nous servons des elements biographiques contenus dans les essais pour presenter l'homme dans son contexte socio-culturel. La deuxieme partie est une analyse de la precarite et de l'insecurite de l'homme dans les romans et du vocabulaire correspondant. S'il y a chute causee essentiellement par les croyances religieuses et superstitieuses, il existe en revanche une redemption qui est l'accomplissement dans un art surrealiste, source d'expression gothique chez les noirs. La troisieme partie se penche sur l'expression gothique chez l'auteur et sur l'humour et l'ironie toujours presents dans ses ecrits The study of james baldwin's works reveals sometimes a very calvinistic conception of life, namely the belief in predestination which is a drawback to any development and self-confidence of the individual. "the theme of the fall among africans and black americans", is a study of the condition of blacks in james baldwin's works in life. In the first part, we make use of biographical evidence found in his essays, to present man in his socio-cultural context. The second part is an analysis of the precarity and the insecurity of man in the novels, and the study of the correspondant vocabulary which reveals that, if there is a fall, caused by religious and superstitious beliefs, the counterpart is redemption which is a

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Sayni, Kouamé. "L'identité afro-américaine et le rapport avec l'Afrique dans la fiction, de James Baldwin à Toni Morrison." Tours, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004TOUR2012.

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Quelles sont les conditions déclenchant les changements intervenus dans la fiction afro-américaine des années 1950 à la fin des années 1970 qui affectent la représentation de l'image du noir et de son discours ? Quelles incidences ces conditions ont-elles eu sur la question de la quête identitaire ? En d'autres termes, le passage du roman de prostestation au roman du souvenir a-t-il infléchi le militantisme de la littérature afro-américaine contemporaine ? Enfin quelle est la place de l'Afrique dans le processus d cette quête ? Voilà les questions qui ont motivé cette étude portant sur GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN de James Baldwin, SONG OF SOLOMON de Toni MORRISON et THE MAN WHO CRIED I AM de John A. Williams. A partir d'outils sociocritiques et narratologiques, et à l'appui de données statistiques, ce travail tente de montrer que ces changements,tels qu'ils transparaissent chez ces auteurs, résultent des mutations sociales intervenues aux Etats-unis au cours des trois décennies concernées ; que ces mutations ont affecté la dynamique générale initiale de la lutte, modifiant ainsi les objectifs du progrés social vers le progrès culturel et politique, ce qui n'enlève rien au caractère militant de cette quête What conditions are at the basis of the changes in African American fiction from the fifties to the late seventies affecting the portraiture of the black hero through the various narrative discourses ? What impacts did these conditions have on the quest of Black idendity ? In other words, does the passage from the "protest novel" to the "novel of memory" modify contemporary African American literary militantism [. . . . ]

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Gray, Jezy J. "Underground Men: Alternative Masculinities and the Politics of Performance in African American Literature and Culture." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2014. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc500123/.

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This study explores intersections between performance, race and masculinity within a variety of expressive cultural contexts during and after the African American Civil Rights Movement. I maintain that the work of James Baldwin is best situated to help us navigate this cross section, as his fiction and cultural criticism focus heavily on the stage in all its incarnations as a space for negotiating the possibilities and limits of expressive culture in combating harmful racial narratives imposed upon black men in America. My thesis begins with a close reading of the performers populating his story collection Going to Meet the Man (1965) before broadening my scope in the following chapters to include analyses of the diametric masculinities in the world of professional boxing and the black roots of the American punk movement. Engaging with theorists like Judith Butler, bell hooks and Paul Gilroy, Underground Men attempts to put these seemingly disparate corners of American life into a dynamic conversation that broadens our understanding through a novel application of critical race, gender and performance theories. Baldwin and his orbiting criticism remain the hub of my investigation throughout, and I use his template of black genius performance outlined in works like Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone (1967) and Just Above My Head (1977) to aid our understanding of how performance prescribes and scrambles dominant narratives about black men after the sexual revolution.

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Stone, Joshua Scott. "American Ethni/Cities: Critical Geography, Subject Formation, and the Urban Representations of Abraham Cahan, Richard Wright, and James Baldwin." Scholarly Repository, 2010. http://scholarlyrepository.miami.edu/oa_dissertations/501.

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By drawing upon aspects of critical geography to explore three writers' representations of urban space and subject formation, American Ethni/Cities develops and advocates for a new methodological approach to the study of literature. Predicated on theories devised by Henri Lefebvre, David Harvey, Edward Soja, Gil Valentine and other geographically-minded thinkers, this spatially conscious literary practice has the potential to enhance one's understanding of literary texts, power dynamics, identity construction, and the spaces one inhabits. Each of the chapters comprising this study aims to demonstrate what this interdisciplinary partnership between geography and literature can reveal. By focusing on Cahan's representation of Jewish immigrants living on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, Wright's depiction of black migrants adjusting to life in the industrial North, and Baldwin's exploration of masculinity as a socio-spatial construct, each respective case-study draws attention to the relationship between spatial production and subject formation. The overarching hope of American Ethni/Cities is that others will find this inter-disciplinary partnership productive and will subsequently make it their own, thereby producing even greater understandings of how power works in the spaces we read about, create, and inhabit in our own daily lives.

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Cassel, Alexandra. "Circulating Emotions in James Baldwin’s Going to Meet the Man and in American Society." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Engelska, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-32420.

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This essay explores how James Baldwin’s short story Going to Meet the Man depicts racist attitudes toward African-Americans in American society. Further, this essay also shows how racism is linked to a circulation of emotions that unconsciously generates a xenophobic nation affecting even those who implicitly are regarded as genuine citizens of that community. By using two theoretical perspectives, Sara Ahmed’s theory of affective economies and some of Freud’s concepts from psychoanalysis, this essay analyzes Baldwin’s text and discovers how the American nation needs to accept and recognize its racist history, just as a child needs to acknowledge his or her fear when experiencing traumatic events. Baldwin’s narrative reinforces racist stereotypes while at the same time using the text to write back to a society that at the time of writing had not expected, but indeed needed, an African-American man to publish a book from a white man’s perspective.

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Beard, Elizabeth (Lisa). "If We Were Kin: Race, Identification, and Intimate Political Appeal." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/20534.

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This study examines the politics of identification in antiracist struggles and asks how people begin and sustain social movement work across lines of difference. The project follows a series of activists and public intellectuals to sites of conflict in order to explore how actors confront failures in solidarity by summoning people to understand their freedom as bound to antiracist struggles. In work by James Baldwin from the 1960s and work by three contemporary social movement organizations—Black Lives Matter, antiracist LGBTQ organization Southerners on New Ground (SONG), and immigrant justice organization #Not1More—actors construct shared forms of identification across racial lines using kinship language and references to the body. Undergirding these rhetorical and organizing strategies is a concept—boundness—with a history in black political thought; a paradigm in which people’s lives are understood to be co-constituted and their freedom bound together. The first chapter traces the concept of boundness in James Baldwin’s political thought and explores how boundness offers an alternative and embodied way to theorize racial identity, racialized violence, and interracial solidarity. Chapter II examines interviews with James Baldwin in 1963 and #BlackLivesMatter activists in 2014-2015 to explore how their overlapping interventions reorient public discussions about racial violence. Chapters III and IV examine how contemporary activists in SONG and #Not1More generate shared forms of identification across racial lines. Drawing on archival research and ethnography, this study employs a close reading approach to specific moments in political discourse and organizing to theorize how people on the ground are crafting and contesting forms of identification. Ultimately, this project offers an account of the ways in which forms of political identification are structured by ethical and emotional orientations, and contends that contestations over these structures are a primary site of politics. This dissertation includes previously published material (Chapter I). 10000-01-01

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Bosse, Walter M. "Breaking the Iceberg: Ernest Hemingway, Black Modernism, and the Politics of Narrative Appropriation." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1396533155.

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Bartlett, Andrew Walsh. "The free place : literary, visual, and jazz creations of space in the 1960s /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/10312.

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Jones, David Colin. "Apart and a part : dissonance, double consciousness, and the politics of black identity in African American literature, 1946-1964." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2015. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/apart-and-a-part-dissonance-double-consciousness-and-the-politics-of-black-identity-in-african-american-literature-19461964(10a43f75-7272-42c5-a39b-7f0e01f75902).html.

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This thesis examines the politics of black identity in African American literature during what has come to be known as the ‘age of three worlds’. Across four chapters, I analyse texts by Ralph Ellison, Richard Wright, James Baldwin, and Lorraine Hansberry, exploring the way in which their writing plays out within and against the geopolitical exigencies of the Cold War and contemporaneous discourses of Civil Rights and black (inter)nationalism. In doing so, I explore the contrasting ways in which each of them displaces the binary logic that is typically seen as defining the 1950s, as a means of reconstituting both American and African American identity. Rejecting either/or identities, they all decentre prevailing notions of national and cultural identity by juxtaposing them with alternative spaces and temporalities, the result of which is a dual perspective that is simultaneously local and transnational. By extricating themselves, whether physically or intellectually, from a monolithic discursive framework, Ellison, Wright, Baldwin, and Hansberry recast the idea of double consciousness famously articulated by W. E. B. Du Bois in The Souls of Black Folk (1903). Instead of being a self-negating non-identity that serves as the psychological corollary to African Americans’ marginalised status, ‘two-ness’ is transmuted into a privileged vantage point that allows them to both intervene on the world historical stage as empowered modern subjects and renegotiate their relationship with the United States. What this two-ness amounts to, I argue, is a kind of dissonance. ‘Dissonance’, Duke Ellington claimed in 1941, names black people’s ‘way of life in America. We are something apart, yet an integral part’. The principle of introducing a ‘wrong’ note into a piece of music in order to generate new modalities of expression found in jazz is transposed into a social and literary context by the writers examined in this thesis. Each of them embodies and mobilises the socially grounded sense of being apart and a part alluded to by Ellington as a means of defamilarising normative notions of race, gender, and sexuality as they pertain to American-ness. In their place, they posit alternative forms of knowledge and politicised identity that reconstitute what it means to be both black and American in the middle of the twentieth century.

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Horton, Ray. "American Literature's Secular Faith." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1491331157721026.

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Gignac, Patrick Joseph. "Oppressive relationships/related oppressions ethnicity, gender, and sexuality and the role of gay identity in James Baldwin's Another country and Hubert Fichte's Versuch über die Pubertät /." Connect to this title online, 1996. http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp05/NQ63422.pdf.

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Mitchell, Taylor Joy. "Cold War Playboys: Models of Masculinity in the Literature of Playboy." Scholar Commons, 2011. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3249.

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"Cold War Playboys: Models of Masculinity in the Literature of Playboy" emphasizes the literary voices that emerged in response to the Cold War's redefinitions of space and sexuality and, thus, adds to the growing national discourse of Cold War literary and masculinity studies. I argue that the literature Playboy includes has always been a necessary feature to creating its masculinity model; however, that very literature often destabilizes the magazine's grand narrative because it presents readers with alternative models of masculinity. To make that argument, I presume five things: 1) masculinity, like femininity, is a construct; 2) the mid-century masculinity crisis should be attributed to redefinitions of space and sexuality; 3) the crisis generated a variety of masculinity models; 4) Playboy presents its own, unified model of masculinity through its editorial features; and 5) finally, that Playboy should be considered an early Cold War artifact because the space Playboy magazine represents, dually domestic and privatized, is hardly trivial--decade after decade, it has absorbed society's shifts and reflected them back to readers. Citing biographical, historical, critical, and textual evidence, I consider how the literature of Playboy magazine responds to the construction of Cold War discourses regarding sexuality and space. In particular, I examine how Playboy contributions from Jack Kerouac, Vladimir Nabokov, and James Baldwin detail models of masculinity informed by Cold War culture. Playboy's emphasis was obviously Playmates, but fiction always appeared in its pages. As its largest component, fiction became the backbone of Playboy. Therefore, Hefner's educated, sexual male identity included, and still includes, reading a wide array of literature--from Ian Fleming to Ursula le Guin. "Cold War Playboys" asks: How did literature gain primacy in Hefner's ideal male identity? What purposes does reading this literature serve when appealing to a particular masculinity? Answering these questions allows me to explore how one mass-produced magazine and specific literary figures participated in and resisted the construction of Cold War discourses regarding space and sexuality.

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Barefoot, Thomas B. "Pamphleteers and Promiscuity: Writing and Dissent between the English Exclusion Crisis and the Glorious Revolution." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1436714359.

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Brownlee, Jonathan J. "Being and Otherness: Conceptualizing Embodiment in Africana Existentialist Discourse (The Bluest Eye, The Fire Next Time, and Black Skin, White Masks)." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1594134915974717.

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Ushedo, Benedict Ohaegbu. "Poetics of selfhood : from critical theory to spiritual autobiography in James Baldwin's short stories." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 1998. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/4346/.

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This study of James Baldwin's short stories focuses on the inter-play of reason and intuition within the process of interpretation. It draws on the protest of theological criticism against a narrow understanding of critical theory fostered by the thinking that literature is "autonomous" and that objectivity implies that the critic has to approach texts as an emotional blank slate. The study demonstrates the capacity of literature to elicit specific ethical and theological responses. It argues that even where a literary work does not seem to exhibit themes immediately relevant to theological inquiry, it remains doubtful whether an analysis of such a text can be effective if it is left neutral or purely descriptive. The underlying assumption is that the power of language constantly stimulates the development of sensibilities and reflections on texts-be they "sacred" or "secular." Hence, it is contended that interpretation necessarily demands the making of choices or the preference of one system of value over another. More specifically, and against the background of the mind-set engendered in James Baldwin by his encounter with religion and subsequent experience as a child-preacher, this study examines the range of issues that echo in his collection of short stories. The claim is that the stories are autobiographically driven. To argue this thesis and the related proposition that the stories feed into theological themes relevant to self-knowledge, vicarious suffering, love and forgiveness, their effectiveness as transformative and revelatory texts is highlighted. By drawing on short story theories and challenging the view that short stories are no more than miniature pieces merely echoing "major" works of their authors, it is further argued that the genre can be profoundly forceful and effective in the articulation of complex human issues.

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Marchbanks, Jack R. "Pride and Protest in Letters and Song: Jazz Artists and Writers during the Civil RightsMovement, 1955-1965." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1522929258105629.

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Jackson, Indya J. "There Will Be No Pictures of Pigs Shooting Down Brothers in the Instant Replay: Surveillance and Death in the Black Arts Movement." The Ohio State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1588601272757038.

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Moore, Marlon Rachquel. ""A torrent of rhetoric" constructs of blackness and masculinity in critical responses to James Baldwin's 'Another Country' /." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2004. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0008862.

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Oliver, Stephen Blake. "Backwards saints, the jazz musician as hero-figure in James Baldwin's "Sonny's Blues" and John Clellon Holmes' "The Horn"." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ54536.pdf.

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Johansson, Erik. "Att rymmas i ramar och gå över gränsen : om en invecklad relation och obskyr neutralitet." Thesis, Konstfack, Institutionen för Konst (K), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:konstfack:diva-7689.

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Denna essä skildrar Erik Johanssons konstnärskap under utbildningsperioden vid Kandidatprogrammet för Fri Konst på Konstfack. Essän beskriver vägen fram till kandidatutställningen Ytspänning genom att göra nedslag vid tre olika tillfällen under loppet av tre läsår. Genom personliga erfarenheter och reflektioner, samhälleliga händelser och teoretiska diskurser vävs en bild av ett konstnärskap fram samtidigt som det situeras i en historisk kontext och en rådande politisk verklighet. I Essän belyses några av vår tids djuprotade och mer nytillblivna problematiker genom en reflektion om vad som osynliggörs när något utges för att vara neutralt, och vad som går förlorat när en logik överskrider alla andra. I granskandet av olika värderande hierarkier och särskiljande praktiker skulpteras en rad konstverk fram tillsammans med en personlig och kollektiv historia av exploatering, förfrämliganden och närmanden.

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Ogunyemi, Christopher Babatunde. "Violence in african american literature : A Comparative analysis of Richard Wright's The man who killed a shadow, and James Baldwin's The fire next time." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Litteraturvetenskap, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-2455.

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Gignac, Patrick Joseph. "Oppressive relationships/related oppressions, ethnicity, gender and sexuality and the role of gay identity in James Baldwin's Another country and Hubert Fichte's Versuch üeber die Pubertät." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1996. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp05/NQ63422.pdf.

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Alexander, Patrick Elliot. "Black Man Kneeling, Black Man Standing: Exploring the Interplay Between Secular and Sacred Spaces in Representations of Black Masculinity in Zora Neale Hurston's Jonah's Gourd Vine, James Baldwin's Go Tell It on the Mountain, and Ernest J Gaines's A Lesso." Miami University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=muhonors1146345025.

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Young, Anna R. "James Baldwin Black American expatriate /." 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10090/8993.

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WU, E.-ZHOU, and 吳蕚洲. "ocial protest in the works of James Baldwin." Thesis, 1993. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/35284671727066397795.

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Lee, Katie, and 李青曄. "A Journey of Crossing: James Baldwin''s Giovanni''s Room." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/v87u44.

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碩士 靜宜大學 英國語文學系研究所 97 James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room depicts a young American traveler’s Parisian experience in the early 1950s, post-WorldWar II. The adventurous journey leads the protagonist to explore a foreign country, but it also exiles him from his own sexual orientation and liberates him from his own culture. Baldwin, an African-American writer, controversially chooses a white man, David, to be the main character and also the narrator of the story. This novel presents multidimensional facets of this expatriate’s experience: across the border, sexual boundary, and racial barrier. Studying Giovanni’s Room as a journey of crossing for both the author and his hero, the thesis first examines the background and the expatriate trend in the United States, as many American writers had visited Europe and had their works based on the life there. Furthermore, in chapter three, according to Joseph Campbell’s monomyth theory of Hero’s journey, the thesis studies Giovanni’s Room as a personal self-searching/escape adventure, and aims at examining David’s self-awakening, and the path of identification-reconstruction, which is one of the trademarks of the expatriate. The next chapter studies the criticisms on Giovanni’s Room, and discusses Baldwin’s comments on “what is the American,” throughout the novella. The thesis proposes an alternate viewpoint to James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room.

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Tuhkanen, Mikko. "Queer breeds Hybridity and futurity in Lillian Hellman, James Baldwin, and Gloria Anzaldua /." 2005. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3169105.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--State University of New York at Buffalo, 2005. Title from PDF title page (viewed on Nov. 23, 2005) Available through UMI ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Thesis adviser: Tim Dean. Includes bibliographical references.

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"Drenched in the Blood of the Lamb: James Baldwin, Religion, Violence, and Marginalization." Doctoral diss., 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.55505.

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abstract: James Baldwin (1924-1987) was one of the most well-known African American fiction and nonfiction writers of the twentieth century. Throughout his life and career, he earned a worldwide reputation as a respected novelist, memoirist, and essayist who contributed to a wide array of artistic movements and intellectual discourses. Many scholars have noted the particular African American religious and cultural influences upon Baldwin’s work. More recently, scholars have additionally noted the importance of Baldwin’s globally-engaged thought and internationalist life. Throughout all of his work, Baldwin wrote extensively on the subject of religion. This dissertation posits the topics of religion, violence, and marginalization as integral to his nonfiction writings and speeches, particularly after 1967. As such, it argues that Baldwin in his early career established four distinct discourses on morality, evil, scapegoatism, and purity that he came to connect in his later writings on the intersection of religion, violence, and marginalization. Within these writings, Baldwin also displayed a rigorous engagement with multicultural and multireligious artistic and literary canons, along with the evolving academic study of religion. Therefore, not only should the intersection of religion, violence, and marginalization be a central consideration for Baldwin scholarship, but scholars of religion and violence in particular would benefit from engaging Baldwin’s addressment of this intersection. Dissertation/Thesis Doctoral Dissertation Religious Studies 2019

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Fernandez, Yaniris M. "Navigating bridges and barriers: A case study of the James Baldwin Scholars Program." 2007. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3275807.

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Retention of students at undergraduate institutions, especially in liberal arts colleges has become increasingly important. Liberal arts colleges are distinct because unlike universities they have small enrollments, serve undergraduates students, are residential and its primary goal is to provide a liberal arts education to its students. Students who typically attend liberal arts colleges come from academically prepared and from privileged backgrounds, however, these students are often not enough to sustain enrollment assumptions. Therefore, students who are less prepared and come from low socio-economic backgrounds are accepted to into these colleges to compensate for the difference. This situation leads institutions to be strategic about creating programs to enhance these student's academic and social skills and help them persist. Thus, it is in the best interest of these colleges to have retention strategies in place to help these students persist and graduate. It is also in the best interest of these students and of society that they be given equitable chances to succeed in higher education. This study assesses the James Baldwin Scholars Program, a program for academically under prepared and economically disadvantaged students, by incorporating a combination of existing retention/persistence models and examines the impact the Program had on student's satisfaction and persistence. Using interviews and surveys of current Baldwin Scholars, alums of the Program, and associated faculty/staff as a method of triangulation to examine the student's persistence, I compared and contrasted the expectations and experiences, and discussed the sources of support and challenges of the Scholars with those of the Baldwin alums, faculty and staff at Hampshire College. As a result, the findings from this study suggest that these students experience a journey filled with programmatic, academic and social supportive bridges and challenging barriers that define their experience. Findings from this study demonstrate that students are most likely to succeed in this type of program when expectations are clear and when the students’ experiences match the expectations---a situation that is more likely to help students find, build and maintain bridges to success while navigating barriers to persistence.

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Ting, Man-yi, and 丁嫚儀. "A Black Gay''s Struggle for Identity in James Baldwin''s Giovanni''s Room." Thesis, 2004. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/31469298796286792533.

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碩士 國立高雄師範大學 英語學系 92 My aim in this thesis is to argue the apparent absence of black gay identity in Giovanni’s Room and present the conflict between individuality and social reality. The first chapter provides the motive, the goal and the argument of this thesis and introduces Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin, White Mask as the studying background. The second chapter reveals the invisible black identity in Giovanni’s Room and explores the whites’ escape from reality and the blacks’ inability to accept their past. Chapter Three discusses the confrontation between homosexual desire and social prohibitions and the function of homophobia. Homophobia functions as social control to maintain the mechanism of heterosexuality and engenders misogyny, effeminophobia and homosexual panic to confirm its function. Chapter Four adopts Baldwin’s idea of love to analyze David’s inability to found close relationships with others and because of David’s failure of love, he cannot achieve his selfhood. Chapter Five summarizes the main ideas of this thesis and discusses David’s possibly hopeful future.

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