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James Baldwin in the Fire This Time
William J. Maxwell, editor of James Baldwin: The FBI File (2017), interviews Bill V. Mullen on his 2019 biography, James Baldwin: Living in Fire, along the way touching on both Baldwin’s early internationalism and his relevance to the current wave of racial discord and interracial possibility in the United States.
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Notes on Hotel Camp
This essay presents ten notes, historical and speculative, sparked by the fact that two of the classics of American queer writing, James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room (1956) and Susan Sontag’s “Notes on ‘Camp’” (1964), were partly inspired by the same tiny Paris hotel room. In place of a case for buried collaboration, I take inspiration from the coincidence of Baldwin and Sontag’s shared space to think their differences together—a conjunction which reveals larger things about the Baldwin we have revived, the Sontag we are reviving, and our residual habit of picturing queer modernism as a star map of individual, trademarked celebrity-functions. Fresh concentration on Sontag and Baldwin’s neglected interactions might help to save both from the distortions of the revivalist spotlight.
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Dunbar's Bohemian Gallery: Foreign Color and Fin-de-Siècle Modernism
From his 1897 London expedition to the publication in 1902 of his last novel, The Sport of the Gods, Dunbar more than once reached for the modern type of the bohemian when approaching the busy inter section of metropolitan life, aesthetically ambitious commercial literature, and the migratory male self.\\n Tutored by African American history at large in addition to his own grueling path to literary professionalism, Dunbar roughed out a vision of aesthetic sovereignty that went all the way down, linking the lofty garret and the workaday ground floor, the free exercise of literary invention and the yearning to unshackle such invention from the unfreedom of others. Seen in a bohemian light, Dunbar's turn-of-the-century work, generally isolated from the history of modernism apart from the debate over dialect, thus winds up suggesting a revisionist thesis on the earliest impact of Euro-American modernism on African American letters: namely, the proposition that this impact has been overlooked due neither to a genuine absence nor to a confusion or racially dissonant terms, but because it was absorbed so gamely, so swiftly, and so easily.
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Complete Poems
Containing more than three hundred poems, including nearly a hundred previously unpublished works, this unique collection showcases the intellectual range of Claude McKay (1889-1948), the Jamaican-born poet and novelist whose life and work were marked by restless travel and steadfast social protest.
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