Who Set You Feelin'? Harlem, Communal Affect, and the Great Migration Narrative in James Baldwin's “Sonny's Blues”

John Claborn is a graduate student at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is currently working on a dissertation called “Ecology of the Color Line: Nature, Race, and Labor in American Literature, 1895–1941.” His research and teaching interests include twentieth-century American literature, environmental history, and cinema studies. He has also published in Modern Fiction Studies and Callaloo.