💡Ny Ordreportal - Se aktuel status >>

Jimmy'S Faith James Baldwin, Disidentification, and The Queer Possibilities of Black Religion

Af: Christopher Hunt
Kategori: Engelsk non fiction div.
Kategori nr.: 9290
Varenr.: 3214146
| Stregkode: 9781531508807
Direkte | Leverandør: Gardners EUR

Vælg format:

Pris: 566,33 kr /stk

Samlet pris:
Normal pris 566,33 kr

Kan bestilles hos Dafolo

Leverandør

Dafolo

Lager status
  • IR Lager
  • IR Fysisk lager
  • Næste ankomstdato til IR's lager -
  • Butik bestilling
  • Resv. antal
  • Disp. lager

Beskrivelse

A novel approach to understanding the work of James Baldwin and its transformative potentialThe relationship of James Baldwin’s life and work to Black religion is in many ways complex and confounding. What is he doing through his literary deployment of religious language and symbols?Despite Baldwin’s disavowal of Christianity in his youth, he continued to engage the symbols and theology of Christianity in works such as The Amen Corner, Just Above My Head, and others. With Jimmy’s Faith, author Christopher W. Hunt shows how Baldwin’s usage of those religious symbols both shifted their meaning and served as a way for him to build his own religious and spiritual vision. Engaging José Esteban Muñoz’s theory of disidentification as a queer practice of imagination and survival, Hunt demonstrates the ways in which James Baldwin disidentifies with and queers Black Christian language and theology throughout his literary corpus. Baldwin’s vision is one in which queer sexuality signifies the depth of love’s transforming possibilities, the arts serve as the (religious) medium of knitting Black community together, an agnostic and affective mysticism undermines Christian theological discourse, “androgyny” troubles the gender binary, and the Black child signifies the hope for a world made new. In disidentifying with Christian symbols, Jimmy’s Faith reveals how Baldwin imagines both religion and the world “otherwise,” offering a model of how we might do the same for our own communities and ourselves. A novel approach to understanding the work of James Baldwin and its transformative potentialThe relationship of James Baldwin’s life and work to Black religion is in many ways complex and confounding. What is he doing through his literary deployment of religious language and symbols?Despite Baldwin’s disavowal of Christianity in his youth, he continued to engage the symbols and theology of Christianity in works such as The Amen Corner, Just Above My Head, and others. With Jimmy’s Faith, author Christopher W. Hunt shows how Baldwin’s usage of those religious symbols both shifted their meaning and served as a way for him to build his own religious and spiritual vision. Engaging José Esteban Muñoz’s theory of disidentification as a queer practice of imagination and survival, Hunt demonstrates the ways in which James Baldwin disidentifies with and queers Black Christian language and theology throughout his literary corpus. Baldwin’s vision is one in which queer sexuality signifies the depth of love’s transforming possibilities, the arts serve as the (religious) medium of knitting Black community together, an agnostic and affective mysticism undermines Christian theological discourse, “androgyny” troubles the gender binary, and the Black child signifies the hope for a world made new. In disidentifying with Christian symbols, Jimmy’s Faith reveals how Baldwin imagines both religion and the world “otherwise,” offering a model of how we might do the same for our own communities and ourselves.

Detaljer

  • EAN
    9781531508807
  • Vægt
    0 g
  • Disponent
    Direkte titel
  • Forfatter
    Christopher Hunt
  • Forlag
    Fordham University Press
  • ISBN
    9781531508807
  • Sprog
    Engelsk
  • Sideantal
    192
  • Udgivelsesdato
  • Format
    Hardback
  • Themakode
    DS, JBSL, NHTB, QRVG
  • Kategori
    Engelsk non fiction div.
  • Kategori nr
    9290
  • Lev. varenr.
    1501
  • Bredde (mm)
    229 mm
  • Længde (mm)
    152 mm