"Love is the Key": James Baldwin's Poethics of Love

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

RIV/00216208:11210/23:10468021 - isvavai.cz

Výsledek na webu

https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=66u0xQY0R1

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

10.7227/JBR.9.5

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

"Love is the Key": James Baldwin's Poethics of Love

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Often overlooked by James Baldwin criticism or addressed according to its unique relationshipto sex and gender, love plays a central role in the writer's oeuvre. This article, conceived as acontrapuntal reading between A Dialogue (1972)-the transcript of a four-hour conversationbetween James Baldwin and poet Nikki Giovanni in November 1971-and If Beale StreetCould Talk (1974), Baldwin's fifth novel, will shed light on Baldwin's "poethics" of love in the1970s, after Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination and the author's engagement with BlackPower and feminism. This revision takes its cues from intersectionality and extends them viaHortense Spillers's bold critique of Baldwin's politics of intimacy, his writing style, and theAmerican family grammar. His vision of love as moral "energy" not only anticipates whatDenise Ferreira da Silva terms a Black feminist "poethics," but is also a potential "key" to end"the racial nightmare" and "save the children," thereby becoming a poethics of love for theinfancy of the world.

Název v anglickém jazyce

"Love is the Key": James Baldwin's Poethics of Love

Popis výsledku anglicky

Often overlooked by James Baldwin criticism or addressed according to its unique relationshipto sex and gender, love plays a central role in the writer's oeuvre. This article, conceived as acontrapuntal reading between A Dialogue (1972)-the transcript of a four-hour conversationbetween James Baldwin and poet Nikki Giovanni in November 1971-and If Beale StreetCould Talk (1974), Baldwin's fifth novel, will shed light on Baldwin's "poethics" of love in the1970s, after Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination and the author's engagement with BlackPower and feminism. This revision takes its cues from intersectionality and extends them viaHortense Spillers's bold critique of Baldwin's politics of intimacy, his writing style, and theAmerican family grammar. His vision of love as moral "energy" not only anticipates whatDenise Ferreira da Silva terms a Black feminist "poethics," but is also a potential "key" to end"the racial nightmare" and "save the children," thereby becoming a poethics of love for theinfancy of the world.

Druh

J_SC - Článek v periodiku v databázi SCOPUS

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60205 - Literary theory

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2023

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

The James Baldwin Review

ISSN

2056-9203

e-ISSN

2056-9211

Svazek periodika

9

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

1

Stát vydavatele periodika

GB - Spojené království Velké Británie a Severního Irska

Počet stran výsledku

30

Strana od-do

7

Kód UT WoS článku

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EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85174013862