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Published: 01 January 1998
DOI: 10.1215/9780822379829-015
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7982-9
Series: New Americanists
Published: 22 May 1997
DOI: 10.1215/9780822382447-009
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8244-7
Published: 26 January 2001
DOI: 10.1215/9780822380931-008
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8093-1
Book Chapter

By Fred Moten
Book: B Jenkins
Series: Refiguring American Music
Published: 01 January 2010
DOI: 10.1215/9780822392675-020
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9267-5
Series: a John Hope Franklin Center Book
Published: 22 May 2002
DOI: 10.1215/9780822383796-006
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8379-6
Series: e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Published: 26 December 2008
DOI: 10.1215/9780822392408-002
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9240-8
Published: 11 October 2005
DOI: 10.1215/9780822387220-005
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8722-0
Published: 11 October 2005
DOI: 10.1215/9780822387220-017
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8722-0
Published: 17 August 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375104-003
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7510-4
... Chapter 2 explores black literary affiliation structured by disavowal and misrecognition by focusing on a generally overlooked moment of telling and testy encounter between George Lamming and James Baldwin at the 1956 Congress of Negro Artists and Writers in Paris. Discussing what can...
Published: 03 January 2025
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059042-001
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5904-2
... 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...
Published: 03 January 2025
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059042-003
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5904-2
... 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...
Published: 03 January 2025
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059042-004
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5904-2
... 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...
Published: 03 January 2025
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059042-006
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5904-2
... 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...
Published: 03 January 2025
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059042-007
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5904-2
... In this chapter, Robert G. O’Meally takes seriously James Baldwin’s statement (quoting one of his key models, Henry James) that in a cruel and sorrowful life, Black artists can use blues music to make their way through a blues-beset world. The chapter considers how both Baldwin and Beauford...
Published: 03 January 2025
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059042-010
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5904-2
... In this chapter, Nicholas Boggs responds to the gap in the scholarly engagement with James Baldwin’s Little Man, Little Man: A Story of Childhood , the 1976 genre-bending “child’s story for adults,” by digging deeper into the influence of two essential figures in the book’s overlooked history...
Published: 03 January 2025
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059042-011
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5904-2
... This chapter, by Robert F. Reid-Pharr, focuses on Little Man, Little Man: A Story of Childhood (1976), written by James Baldwin and illustrated by Yoran Cazac. Cazac worked with a brûlage (burning) painting technique, and in Little Man, Little Man this interest in fire is demonstrated...
Published: 03 January 2025
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059042-012
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5904-2
... In this chapter, Indie A. Choudhury examines the ways that Beauford Delaney and James Baldwin conflated sight and visibility and how performance became the functional apparatus that mediated the relationship between these modes. Using Baldwin’s play Blues for Mister Charlie (1964...
Published: 03 January 2025
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059042-014
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5904-2
... 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...
Published: 03 January 2025
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059042-017
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5904-2
... 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...
Published: 03 January 2025
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059042-019
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5904-2
... In this chapter, Shawn Anthony Christian explores how the friendship between James Baldwin and Beauford Delaney constituted an instance of Black artistic relation as genealogical transition, something deeper than “artistic influence” and more historically and culturally familial than simply...