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James Baldwin's Turkish decade : erotics of exile / Magdalena J. Zaborowska.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zaborowska, Magdalena J.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Baldwin, James, 1924-1987--Homes and haunts--Turkey.
- Baldwin, James.
- African American authors--Biography.
- African American authors.
- African Americans--Turkey--Biography.
- African Americans.
- Americans--Turkey--Biography.
- Americans.
- Turkey--Biography.
- Turkey.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (413 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- From Harlem to Istanbul
- Between friends: looking for Baldwin in Constantinople
- Queer orientalisms in another country
- Staging masculinity in Dusenin Dostu
- East to south: homosexual panic, the old country, and no name in the street
- Welcome tables east and west.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-358) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613065452
- 9780822341673
- 0822341670
- 9781283065450
- 1283065452
- OCLC:
- 317321646
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