... The introduction to the volume presents biographical background about Beauford Delaney and James Baldwin and discusses the history of their friendship and their mutual influences. It provides a comprehensive summary of scholarship conjoining the two artists and explores shared political...

... In this chapter, Hilton Als meditates on the legacy of queerness left by Beauford Delaney for Black artists. Als imagines the initial encounter between Delaney and James Baldwin in New York City and their recognition of each other as queer Black outsiders. queer community queer studies...

... In this chapter, Fred Moten explores the relationship between Beauford Delaney and James Baldwin by way of synesthetic aesthetics: how music and the attempt to listen deeply also means attention to color, and particularly blue, but also green and yellow, in Delaney's painting and Baldwin's...

... In this chapter, Monika Gehlawat examines Beauford Delaney’s proclivity for choosing both abstraction and figuration to achieve formal and political ends and how this links his painting to James Baldwin’s nonfiction. Baldwin uses pronoun play as a rhetorical strategy to enact a vision...

... In this chapter, Stephen C. Wicks examines how one painting by Beauford Delaney, James Baldwin (1966) , stands apart from all of Delaney’s many portraits of the writer in its atypically narrow color scheme of yellow and black, tangled angular contours, openwork structure, and absence...

... In this chapter, Ed Pavlić accounts for the interlude in James Baldwin's life between leaving Hollywood in 1969 and the summer of 1970—immediately before his full-time residence in Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France, where he would complete No Name in the Street . Baldwin aimed to retreat from his...

... James Baldwin Nabile Farès aṭ-Ṭāhir Waṭṭār al-Jāḥiẓ the blues ...