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Thema: James Baldwin

James Baldwin
(* 2. August 1924; ? 1. Dezember 1987) war einer der bedeutendsten schwulen und afroamerikanischen Schriftsteller des 20. Jahrhunderts.
Seine Erzählungen sind berühmt für den persönlichen Stil, in dem Fragen der Identität von Schwarzen und Schwulen zur Sprache kommen, lange bevor die soziale, kulturelle oder politische Gleichstellung dieser Gruppen erkämpft wurde.

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James Baldwin: The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings

James Baldwin: The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings

USA 2011, 400 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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A gathering of essays, articles, polemics, reviews, and interviews that have never before appeared in book form. James Baldwin was one of the most brilliant and provocative literary figures of the past century, renowned for his fierce engagement with issues haunting our common history and his gay classic »Giovanni's Room«. In »The Cross of Redemption« we have Baldwin discoursing ... Weiterlesen

Devon W. Carbado, Dwight A. McBride and Donald Wei: Black Like Us

Devon W. Carbado, Dwight A. McBride and Donald Wei: Black Like Us

A Century of Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual African American Fiction. USA 2011, 555 pp., brochure, € 39.95
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Cleis - Gay and Lesbian Studies
Showcasing the work of literary giants like Langston Hughes, James Baldwin, Audre Lorde and writers whom readers may be surprised to learn were »in the life«, »Black Like Us« is a comprehensive collection of fiction by African American lesbian, gay and bisexual writers - from the Harlem Renaissance to the Great Migration of the Depression era, from the postwar civil ... Weiterlesen

Herb Boyd: Baldwin's Harlem

Herb Boyd: Baldwin's Harlem

USA 2008, 244 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Although James Baldwin left his native Harlem as a young man and returned only for occasional visits, the New York neighborhood was a recurring theme in his essays and novels. His junior high French teacher may have inspired Baldwin's later Paris sojourn and his first literary efforts, and Baldwin shared a stormy relationship with another Harlem Renaissance progenitor, poet Langston ... Weiterlesen

James Baldwin: The Fire Next Time

James Baldwin: The Fire Next Time

USA 2007, 89 pp., pb, € 14.95
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Penguin USA
»The Fire Next Time« galvanized the US nation and gave passionate voice to the emerging civil rights movement. At once a powerful evocation of James Baldwin's early life in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice, the book is an intensely personal and provocative document. It consists of two »letters,« written on the occasion of the ... Weiterlesen

Jonathan N. Katz: The Invention of Heterosexuality

Jonathan N. Katz: The Invention of Heterosexuality

USA 2007, 292 pp., brochure, € 49.95
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»Heterosexuality«, assumed to denote a universal sexual and cultural norm, has been largely exempt from critical scrutiny. The author challenges the common notion that the distinction between heterosexuality and homosexuality has been a timeless one. Building on the history of medical terminology, he reveals that as late as 1923, the term »heterosexuality« referred to a »morbid sexual passion«, and that ... Weiterlesen

Elisabeth Buchholtz: Eine Liebe wie jede andere auch?

Elisabeth Buchholtz: Eine Liebe wie jede andere auch?

Männliche Homosexualität in Prosatexten der Gegenwartsliteratur im Deutschunterricht. D 2004, 208 S., Broschur, € 20.40
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Das Thema Homosexualität ist seit den neunziger Jahren durch die Diskussion um die sogenannte Homo-Ehe und zahlreiche Film- und Fernsehproduktionen zunehmend ins öffentliche Bewusstsein getreten, in der Deutschdidaktik aber bisher kaum bearbeitet worden. Das Buch möchte Interesse für die innovative Thematik wecken und vielfältige Möglichkeiten der Behandlung im Unterricht aufzeigen. Der Schwerpunkt liegt im Bereich der Gegenwartsliteratur und berücksichtigt bewusst ... Weiterlesen

James Baldwin: Nobody Knows My Name

James Baldwin: Nobody Knows My Name

USA 1993, 241 pp., brochure, € 18.95
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Vintage
Told with the gay black author's characteristically unflinching honesty, this collection of illuminating, deeply felt essays examines topics ranging from race relations in the United States - including a passionate attack on William Faulkner for his ambivalent views about the segregated South - to the role of the writer in society, and offers personal accounts of Richard Wright, Norman Mailer ... Weiterlesen

James Baldwin: Another Country

James Baldwin: Another Country

USA 1992, 436 pp., pb, € 17.95
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Penguin USA
Set in Greenwich Village, Harlem, and France, among other locales, »Another Country 174 is a novel of passions - sexual, racial, political, artistic - that is stunning for its emotional intensity and haunting sensuality, depicting men and women, blacks and whites, stripped of their masks of gender and race by love and hatred at the most elemental and sublime. In ... Weiterlesen

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