This study concerns itself primarily with James Baldwin's treatment of the attitudes he thinks most white people hold. He desires to make the white man conscious of his attitude towards Negroes and to analyze the reasons for them, and incorporates his ideas into setting, characterization, and plot.

Proefschrift--Universiteit van Amsterdam, 1995. / La couv. porte comme nom d'auteur : "Franz-Jozef Hirs" Bibliogr. p. 298-304.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Georgia State University, 2005. / Title from title screen. Thomas L. McHaney, committee chair; Mary Zeigler, Warren Carson, committee members. Electronic text (164 p.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed May 4, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (p. 147-164).

Submitted by Cássia Santos (cassia.bcufg@gmail.com) on 2017-05-29T10:45:08Z No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertação - Paulo Rogério Bentes Bezerra - 2017.pdf: 2271427 bytes, checksum: da467bb1c50c5b78b2adb29e71ffbe81 (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Luciana Ferreira (lucgeral@gmail.com) on 2017-05-29T10:59:40Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertação - Paulo Rogério Bentes Bezerra - 2017.pdf: 2271427 bytes, checksum: da467bb1c50c5b78b2adb29e71ffbe81 (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-05-29T10:59:40Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 Dissertação - Paulo Rogério Bentes Bezerra - 2017.pdf: 2271427 bytes, checksum: da467bb1c50c5b78b2adb29e71ffbe81 (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-04-10 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / The aim of this academic paper is to do a cartography of the desire, the identitiy and the space, among other issues which are related to the difference, on the novel Giovanni`s Room, produced in 1956 by African American writer James Baldwin. From my particular reading of the novel, there is the perception that the relationship between the couple David and Giovanni is the core of the narrative. Concerning the issue of desire, I will discuss it as multiplicity. Furthermore, regarding identity, I will discuss its subversive character, the diaspora and the in-between, which are snippets that I consider very meaningful to the novel and its author. Regarding the matter of space, through my point of view, it has a peripheral atmosphere, which reflects the social marginalization of the characters that inhabit and move around it. Moreover, the masculinity, which I also consider as a significant issue in the work of Baldwin is connected, in my conception, to sexual ambiguity. I emphasize that, considering the matters of space and masculinity, this research will approach Giovannni`s Room, but it will be also extended to the novels Another Country and Just Above My Head, also written by Baldwin, for their construction is marked, through my point of view, by the difference. In order to better conduct this academic paper, I will select a theoretical framework, which includes Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, Stuart Hall, Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, Georges Battaile, Homi Bhabha, Gaston Bachelard, Fernando Seffner and other contributors. / Propõe-se neste trabalho cartografar o desejo, a identidade, a espacialidade e outros aspectos que estão permeados pela diferença, no romance Giovanni`s Room, de autoria do afro-americano James Baldwin, publicado em 1956. Na minha proposta de leitura do romance, com a percepção de que a sua narrativa gira em torno da relação do casal de amantes David e Giovanni, discuto o desejo como multiplicidade. No que concerne às questões relacionadas à identidade, as discussões abordam a transgressão, a diáspora e o entre-lugar, recortes que considero significativos com relação à obra e ao autor. Quanto à temática da espacialidade, esta tem, na minha percepção, uma configuração periférica, que remete à condição marginal das personagens que nela habitam e circulam. A masculinidade, na obra de Baldwin está ligada, na minha leitura, à ambiguidade sexual. Ressalto que, quanto à masculinidade e à espacialidade, a pesquisa abordará, além de Giovanni`s Room, os romances Another Country e Just Above My Head, de autoria de James Baldwin, por também terem, na minha concepção, sua configuração ligada à diferença. Como suporte teórico para as questões pertinentes a essa pesquisa, utilizarei as contribuições de Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, Stuart Hall, Georges Bataille, Gaston Bachelard, Fernando Seffner, entre outros.

This study explores intersections between performance, race and masculinity within a variety of expressive cultural contexts during and after the African American Civil Rights Movement. I maintain that the work of James Baldwin is best situated to help us navigate this cross section, as his fiction and cultural criticism focus heavily on the stage in all its incarnations as a space for negotiating the possibilities and limits of expressive culture in combating harmful racial narratives imposed upon black men in America. My thesis begins with a close reading of the performers populating his story collection Going to Meet the Man (1965) before broadening my scope in the following chapters to include analyses of the diametric masculinities in the world of professional boxing and the black roots of the American punk movement. Engaging with theorists like Judith Butler, bell hooks and Paul Gilroy, Underground Men attempts to put these seemingly disparate corners of American life into a dynamic conversation that broadens our understanding through a novel application of critical race, gender and performance theories. Baldwin and his orbiting criticism remain the hub of my investigation throughout, and I use his template of black genius performance outlined in works like Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone (1967) and Just Above My Head (1977) to aid our understanding of how performance prescribes and scrambles dominant narratives about black men after the sexual revolution.

This thesis analyzes James Baldwin's essays as a method for understanding racial identity and authenticity. By using Vetta Sanders-Thompson's racial identification parameters, I suggest that Baldwin's struggle with his identity as a black American is crucial to deposing the idea of a monolithic black experience, which opens up new ways of analyzing African American literature.

L’année 1963 est centrale pour le mouvement des droits civiques puisque la popularité de Martin Luther King donne un nouvel élan aux luttes afro-américaines. En effet, c’est au mois d’août 1963 à Washington que le pasteur King prononce son discours I Have a Dream. Bien qu’il s’attaque aux lois « Jim crow » et à sa doctrine Separate but equal qui ségrége la société américaine. Par son message non-violent empreint d’amour, d’espoir et de résilience, King devient un porte-parole emblématique du mouvement des droits civiques et le porteur d’une pensée structurante au sein des luttes afro-américaines dans les années 1960, soit la pensée intégrationniste. À cette époque, le mouvement des droits civiques devient un mouvement populaire porté par différents acteurs. C’est le cas de l’écrivain afro-américain James Baldwin qui fait paraître en 1963 son essai The Fire Next Time. De manière plus spécifique, on peut dire que son essai The Fire Next Time vulgarise le discours intégrationniste. Nous proposons d’évaluer, dans notre mémoire, la contribution de James Baldwin et de son essai The Fire Next Time paru en 1963 à l’idéologie intégrationniste. D’abord, nous aborderons certains éléments de l’histoire afro-américaine concernant les premières formes de résistance des Noirs américains (1917- 1954). Ensuite, nous tenterons de cerner les éléments compris dans l’argumentaire de Baldwin faisant en sorte que son essai The Fire Next Time et les idées qui y sont comprises, sont souvent associés à l’idéologie intégrationniste. Pour finir, nous verrons que l’amour est l’ultime solution au « problème noir », selon Baldwin. Dans ce chapitre, nous nous intéresserons au concept d’amour et aux définitions qu’en donnent Martin Luther King et Baldwin.

James Arthur Baldwin (1924- 1987) is one of the two major writers who have dared write about black gay men and from a black gay perspective. However, his fame as a racial spokesman and his insightful analyses of race relations in America tend to distract attention from the fact that he has been one of the most important homosexual writers of the twentieth century. Intolerance and homophobia among black and white Americans often led to a misinterpretation or misevaluation of James Baldwin's novels. James Baldwin was very courageous to come out as a black homosexual writer during the period of the Cold War and the Civil Rights movement. However, his awareness of racism and homophobia in the American society, and his difficult position of being a public figure and a spokesman for the Afro-Americans left its traces in his novels and influenced his novel writing career. The purpose of the present study is to show that out of intolerance, ignorance, and homophobia the evaluators of James Baldwin's novels often did him no justice. Baldwin through his novel writing developed a homosexual consciousness for himself. This struggle of coming-out was his personal struggle and it was marked by his burden of the doubly oppressed. I argue that Baldwin's search for an identity as a black homosexual writer is reflected in his writing. He constructed his identity through his writing. This study attempts to show that Baldwin's development of a homosexual identity took place in stages during his novel writing career. An analysis of the novels Go Tell It On the Mountain (1953), Giovanni's Room (1956), Another Country (1962), and Just Above My Head ( 1979) will demonstrate his movement from dealing with homosexuality as an underlying theme to using it as a tool to protest against any kinds of labels in the American society. Baldwin believed that discrimination cannot cease as long as the categorization of people through artificial constructs such as the "Negro" or the "homosexual" exists.

Thesis--Heidelberg. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 188-200).

This study examines the politics of identification in antiracist struggles and asks how people begin and sustain social movement work across lines of difference. The project follows a series of activists and public intellectuals to sites of conflict in order to explore how actors confront failures in solidarity by summoning people to understand their freedom as bound to antiracist struggles. In work by James Baldwin from the 1960s and work by three contemporary social movement organizations—Black Lives Matter, antiracist LGBTQ organization Southerners on New Ground (SONG), and immigrant justice organization #Not1More—actors construct shared forms of identification across racial lines using kinship language and references to the body. Undergirding these rhetorical and organizing strategies is a concept—boundness—with a history in black political thought; a paradigm in which people’s lives are understood to be co-constituted and their freedom bound together. The first chapter traces the concept of boundness in James Baldwin’s political thought and explores how boundness offers an alternative and embodied way to theorize racial identity, racialized violence, and interracial solidarity. Chapter II examines interviews with James Baldwin in 1963 and #BlackLivesMatter activists in 2014-2015 to explore how their overlapping interventions reorient public discussions about racial violence. Chapters III and IV examine how contemporary activists in SONG and #Not1More generate shared forms of identification across racial lines. Drawing on archival research and ethnography, this study employs a close reading approach to specific moments in political discourse and organizing to theorize how people on the ground are crafting and contesting forms of identification. Ultimately, this project offers an account of the ways in which forms of political identification are structured by ethical and emotional orientations, and contends that contestations over these structures are a primary site of politics. This dissertation includes previously published material (Chapter I). / 10000-01-01