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... In this chapter, D. Quentin Miller argues that James Baldwin’s 1957 short story “Sonny's Blues” was published at a point in his career when his attention to visual aesthetics was catalyzed and refined by Beauford Delaney. Reframing “Sonny’s Blues” in terms of its visual elements both affords...

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... writing. Moten considers whether thinking the color blue in Delaney is entangled with the thought of the blues in Baldwin, particularly in Baldwin’s story “Sonny's Blues.” Because that story is so deeply concerned with the social force of the abductive movements (of embrace) that the character Sonny must...

..., in Delaney's painting and Baldwin's writing. Moten considers whether thinking the color blue in Delaney is entangled with the thought of the blues in Baldwin, particularly in Baldwin’s story “Sonny's Blues.” Because that story is so deeply concerned with the social force of the abductive movements (of embrace...

... In this chapter, Walton Muyumba observes that while the claim is provocative that James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues” is his homage to Beauford Delaney, the author actually has doubled himself within the short story: Sonny, the improvising artist, and his brother, the narrator-as-critic, are both...

... Delaney use images of light to put blues-sorrows into perspective. The chapter offers a new reading of Baldwin’s major short story “Sonny’s Blues” in the context of Delaney’s lessons to Baldwin as the latter matures as an author. The essay proposes a theory of reading visual art and literature...