Me and My House: James Baldwin's Last Decade in France 9780822372349, 0822372347
The last sixteen years of James Baldwin's life (1971–87) unfolded in a village in the South of France, in a sprawli
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Table of contents :
Cover
Contents
Abbreviations
Acknowledgments
Introduction. If I Am a Part of the American House, and I Am: Vitrines, Fragments, Reassembled Remnants
Chapter 1. Foundations, Façades, and Faces: Through the Glass Blackly, or Domesticating Claustrophobic Terror
Chapter 2. Home Matter: No House in the World, or Reading Transnational, Black Queer Domesticity in St. Paul-de-Vence
Chapter 3. Life Material: Haunted Houses and Welcome Tables, or The First Teacher, the Last Play, and Affectations of Disidentification
Chapter 4. Building Metaphors: “Sitting in the Strangest House I Have Ever Known,” or Black Heterotopias from Harlem to San Juan, to Paris, London, and Yonkers
Chapter 5. Black Life Matters of Value: Erasure, Overlay, Manipulation, or Archiving the Invisible House
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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Cover
Contents
Abbreviations
Acknowledgments
Introduction. If I Am a Part of the American House, and I Am: Vitrines, Fragments, Reassembled Remnants
Chapter 1. Foundations, Façades, and Faces: Through the Glass Blackly, or Domesticating Claustrophobic Terror
Chapter 2. Home Matter: No House in the World, or Reading Transnational, Black Queer Domesticity in St. Paul-de-Vence
Chapter 3. Life Material: Haunted Houses and Welcome Tables, or The First Teacher, the Last Play, and Affectations of Disidentification
Chapter 4. Building Metaphors: “Sitting in the Strangest House I Have Ever Known,” or Black Heterotopias from Harlem to San Juan, to Paris, London, and Yonkers
Chapter 5. Black Life Matters of Value: Erasure, Overlay, Manipulation, or Archiving the Invisible House
Notes
Bibliography
Index
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
Y
Z
Color Plates
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