"Something Unspeakable": James Baldwin and the "Closeted-ness" of American Power
This article reads the work of James Baldwin in dialogue with that of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. Taking its cue from Baldwin’s claim that Americans “live […] with something in [their] closet” that they “pretend […] is not there,” it explores his depiction of a United States characterized by the “closete...
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| Language: | English |
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Manchester University Press
2017-10-01
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| Series: | James Baldwin Review |
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| Online Access: | https://jbr.openlibrary.manchester.ac.uk/index.php/jbr/article/view/38 |