Giovanni's room / James Baldwin ; with an introduction by Colm Tóibín. by Baldwin, James, 1924-1987

Giovanni's room / James Baldwin. by Baldwin, James, 1924-1987

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James Baldwin and Toni Morrison : comparative critical and theoretical essays / edited by Lovalerie King and Lynn Orilla Scott.

Table of Contents: “…Femininity, abjection, and (Black) masculinity in James Baldwin's Giovanni's room and Toni Morrison's Beloved /…”
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Images of whiteness / edited by Clarissa Behar and Anastasia Chung.

Table of Contents: “…In a 'Hall of Mirrors': A Phenomenology of Heteronormative White Double Consciousness in James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room /…”
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Early novels and stories / James Baldwin. by Baldwin, James, 1924-1987

Table of Contents: “…Go tell it on the mountain -- Giovanni's room -- Another country -- Going to meet the man.…”

Understanding James Baldwin / Marc Dudley. by Dudley, Marc K., 1971-

Table of Contents: “…Understanding James Baldwin -- In the beginning: fictional foundations in Go tell it on the mountain and Giovanni's room -- Another chapter, another life, another country: Baldwin's big book of ideas -- Eyes on the prize: Baldwin, the essay, and civil rights discourse -- Telling a true story, differently: Baldwin's short fiction and drama -- When the sun goes down: Baldwin, the later years.…”
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James Baldwin and the queer imagination / Matt Brim. by Brim, Matt

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: James Baldwin theory : seeing the invisible -- James Baldwin's queer utility : black gay male literary tradition and 'Go tell it on the mountain' -- Paradoxical reading practices : 'Giovanni's room' as queer/gay/trans novel -- What straight men need : gay love in 'Another country' -- Papas' baby : impossible paternity in 'Going to meet the man' -- Conclusion: The queer imagination and the gay male conundrum.…”
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James Baldwin / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.

Table of Contents: “…Bell -- The divided mind of James Baldwin / C.W.E Bigsby -- Giovanni's room / Stephen Adams -- Baldwin looks back / James A. …”

Raising the dead : readings of death and (Black) subjectivity / Sharon Patricia Holland. by Holland, Sharon Patricia

Table of Contents: “…Death and the nation's subjects -- Bakulu discourse: bodies made "flesh" in Toni Morrison's Beloved -- Telling the story of genocide in Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the dead -- (Pro)creating in imaginative spaces and other queer acts: Randall Kenan's A visitation of spirits and its revival of James Baldwin's absent Black gay man in Giovanni's room -- "From this moment forth, we are Black lesbians": querying feminism and killing the self in Consolidated's Business of punishment -- Critical conversations at the boundary between life and death.…”
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American Cold War culture / edited by Douglas Field.

Table of Contents: “…Corber -- Mapping containment : the cultural construction of the Cold War / David Ryan -- Movable containers : Cold War trailers and trailer parks / Dina Smith -- Passing as a Cold War novel : anxiety and assimilation in James Baldwin's Giovanni's room / Douglas Field -- Disney's Song of the South and the birth of the white Negro / Catherine Gunther Kodat -- Policing dissent : "Orwell" and Cold War culture, 1945-2004 / Scott Lucas -- Cold War television and the technology of brainwashing / Alan Nadel -- Confession, autobiography and resistance : Robert Lowell and the politics of privacy / Hugh Stevens.…”

Re-viewing James Baldwin : things not seen / edited by D. Quentin Miller ; foreword by David Adams Leeming.

Table of Contents: “…Lynch -- "An irrevocable condition": constructions of home and the writing of place in Giovanni's room / Kathleen N. Drowne -- Another look at Another country: reconciling Baldwin's racial and sexual politics / Susan Feldman -- Black-gay-man chaos in Another country / Charles P. …”

The Gay '90s : disciplinary and interdisciplinary formations in queer studies / edited by Thomas Foster, Carol Siegel, and Ellen E. Berry.

Table of Contents: “…Queering the academy / Robyn Wiegman -- Lesbian and gay studies: a consumer's guide / Dennis Allen -- "She's right behind you": gossip, innuendo, and rumor in the (de)formation of gay and lesbian studies / John Champagne and Elayne Tobin -- Straight with a twist: queer theory and the subject of heterosexuality / Calvin Thomas -- Lifting the veil: Robert Rauschenberg's Thirty-four drawings for Dante's Inferno and the commercial homoerotic imagery of 1950s America / Laura Auricchio -- Brother/outsider: in search of a black gay legacy in James Baldwin's Giovanni's room / Myriam J. A. Chancy -- Homosexuality and the uncanny: what's fishy in Lacan / Thomas E. …”

James Baldwin and Toni Morrison : comparative critical and theoretical essays / co-editors, Lovalerie King, Lynn Orilla Scott.

Table of Contents: “…Frances White -- Femininity, abjection, and (Black) masculinity in James Baldwin's Giovanni's room and Toni Morrison's Beloved / Keith Mitchell.…”

South of tradition : essays on African American literature / Trudier Harris-Lopez. by Harris, Trudier

Table of Contents: “…Humor in Alice Walker's The color purple -- Slanting the truth: homosexuality, manhood, and race in James Baldwin's Giovanni's room -- New invisible man: revisiting a nightmare in the 1990s (Brent Wade's Company man and Ralph Ellison's Invisible man) -- Zapping the editor, or, how to tell censors to kiss off without really trying: Zora Neale Hurston's fights with authority figures in Dust tracks on a road -- Architecture as destiny? …”
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Crossing borders : essays on literature, culture, and society in honor of Amritjit Singh / edited by Tapan Basu, Tasneem Shahnaaz.

Table of Contents: “…; 3 Translating across the Borders; 4 Dancing with Italians; Part II: Nation and Sub-Nation; 5 Creating Kashmir; 6 Drawing the Durand Line; 7 Teaching Giovanni's Room in the Shadow of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict; Part III: Diaspora and Trans-Nation; 8 Diasporic Subjectivity; 9 A Partition without Borders; 10 Caste, Race, and Intellectual History; Part IV: Gendered Identities; 11 Jessie Fauset and the Historiography of the Harlem Renaissance; 12 Space and the Shape of a Life.…”
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Black queer studies : a critical anthology / E. Patrick Johnson and Mae G. Henderson, editors.

Table of Contents: “…Wallace -- But some of us are brave lesbians: the absence of Black lesbian fiction / Jewelle Gomez -- James Baldwin's Giovanni's room: expatriation, "racial drag," and homosexual panic / Mae G. …”
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James Baldwin : The Price of the Ticket / California Newsreel (Firm).

Table of Contents: “…James Baldwin's Funeral (2:54) -- Maya Angelou on James Baldwin (1:24) -- Amiri Baraka on James Baldwin (1:00) -- Harlem Childhood (1:42) -- Reading from James Baldwin from "Early Essays" (1:28) -- P.S. 24: Baldwin's School Song (1:05) -- Young Writer's Perspective (1:54) -- Baldwin Realizes He Knows "Nothing" (2:52) -- Restaurant Incident (0:54) -- 1948: Baldwin in Paris (2:31) -- "Everybody's Protest Novel" (1:18) -- France's "Niggers" (1:32) -- Baldwin in Switzerland (2:55) -- "Go Tell it on the Mountain" Published (1:37) -- Analysis: "Go Tell it on the Mountain" (2:26) -- "Go Tell it on the Mountain" (1:15) -- "Giovanni's Room" (3:36) -- Baldwin Returns to the U.S. (1:31) -- "Another Country" (2:03) -- Americans in Istanbul (3:13) -- Excerpt and Analysis: "Another Country" (1:32) -- Success of "Another Country" (1:11) -- Istanbul: A Place to (Party) Rest and Work (1:52) -- Baldwin Eloquent Civil Rights Speaker (3:18) -- "The Fire Next Time" (1:54) -- Baldwin's "Live Grenade" (2:33) -- Race Relations in Art (3:31) -- Analysis "Blues for Mister Charlie" (2:00) -- "All White Men Are Mister Charlie" (2:51) -- Baldwin Becomes a Pariah (2:23) -- Baldwin Reacts to Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. (2:58) -- Baldwin's Return to France (3:09) -- "If Beale St. …”
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Growing up gay/growing up lesbian : a literary anthology / edited by Bennett L. Singer.

Table of Contents: “…Deschamps -- from Giovanni's room / James Baldwin -- Life line / Gloria E. …”

African American Literature Beyond Race : an Alternative Reader. by Jarrett, Gene Andrew, 1975-

Table of Contents: “…Himes; YESTERDAY WILL MAKE YOU CRY (1952); Book 2: Flood of Tears Chapter 9 [Memories]; Book 3: Shall Become the Same at Last Chapter 1 [A Riot]; 11 RICHARD WRIGHT; SAVAGE HOLIDAY (1954): Part One: Anxiety; 12 JAMES BALDWIN; GIOVANNI'S ROOM (1956): Chapter 1 [The Flight]; PART IV: Contemporary Period after 1965; 13 SAMUEL R. …”
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