James Baldwin’s Turkish Decade ：Erotics of Exile ( 1 )

Publication subTitle ：Erotics of Exile

Publication series ：1

Author： Magdalena J. Zaborowska  

Publisher： Duke University Press‎

Publication year： 2008

E-ISBN: 9780822392408

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780822341673

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9780822341444

Subject： I06 Literature, Literature Appreciation

Keyword： Baldwin, James, -- 1924-1987 -- Homes and haunts -- Turkey., African American authors -- Biography., African Americans -- Turkey -- Biography., Americans -- Turkey -- Biography., Turkey -- Biography.

Language： ENG

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Description

Between 1961 and 1971 James Baldwin spent extended periods of time in Turkey, where he worked on some of his most important books. In this first in-depth exploration of Baldwin’s “Turkish decade,” Magdalena J. Zaborowska reveals the significant role that Turkish locales, cultures, and friends played in Baldwin’s life and thought. Turkey was a nurturing space for the author, who by 1961 had spent nearly ten years in France and Western Europe and failed to reestablish permanent residency in the United States. Zaborowska demonstrates how Baldwin’s Turkish sojourns enabled him to re-imagine himself as a black queer writer and to revise his views of American identity and U.S. race relations as the 1960s drew to a close.

Following Baldwin’s footsteps through Istanbul, Ankara, and Bodrum, Zaborowska presents many never published photographs, new information from Turkish archives, and original interviews with Turkish artists and intellectuals who knew Baldwin and collaborated with him on a play that he directed in 1969. She analyzes the effect of his experiences on his novel Another Country (1962) and on two volumes of his essays, The Fire Next Time (1963) and No Name in the Street (1972), and she explains how Baldwin’s time in Turkey informed his ambivalent relationship to New York, his responses to the American South, and his decision to settle in southern France. James Baldwin’s Turkish Decade e

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Contents

List of Illustrations

Preface: Sightings

Acknowledgments

Introduction: From Harlem to Istanbul

One. Between Friends: Looking for Baldwin in Constantinople

Two. Queer Orientalisms in Another Country

Three. Staging Masculinity in Düşenin Dostu

Four. East to South: Homosexual Panic, the Old Country, and No Name in the Street

Conclusion: Welcome Tables East and West

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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