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PublisherDuke University Press

ISBN-100822341441

ISBN-139780822341444

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Number of Pages416 Pages

Publication NameJames Baldwin's Turkish Decade : Erotics of Exile

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2009

SubjectAmerican / African American, Middle Eastern, Literary, Lgbt Studies / Gay Studies

TypeTextbook

AuthorMagdalena J. Zaborowska

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography

FormatHardcover

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Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight25.6 Oz

Item Length9.3 in

Item Width6 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2008-028960

Dewey Edition22

Reviews"[Zaborowska] scours [Baldwin's] works for hints of Istanbul; she visits his stomping grounds and entertainingly interviews various Turkish luminaries. . . . [H]er reporting reveals as much about Turkey as it does about Baldwin, as well as the connections between this fledgling nation and the growing shadow America had begun to cast across the globe." - Suzy Hansen, The National (Abu Dhabi), "Zaborowska's book will make you want to reread Another Country and his later works with a new context of understanding. The book illuminates, with a scholar's focus and a writer's nuance, how Baldwin's exile in Istanbul was not simply a theme or escape from the racism and homophobia of the U.S., but also a deeply felt condition crucial to his intellectual and creative imagination. Indeed, the book reminds us that some of the most poignant and insightful writings about sexuality and race in the canon of American literature were composed well beyond our shores." - James Polchin, Gay and Lesbian Review/Worldwide, "Magdalena Zaborowska persuasively argues that Baldwin's Turkish years-1961 and 1971-are key to understanding his career. . . . I found her deceptively simple argument arresting: although the broad outlines of Baldwin's Turkish years are well known, to date, no scholar has set out to foreground place and atmosphere of composition so extensively." - Tavia Nyong'o, American Quarterly, "[I]nformative and enlightening. . . . Zaborowska's work will appeal to fans of Baldwin looking for an interesting take on the man's life. . . . Her dedication and passion does shine through in the time and effort she placed in writing this book. . . ." - Derek Beres, Popmatters, "Of central importance is how Baldwin's so-called Turkish exile helped distance him from, while also focusing, his massive contradictions within a society of contradictions. . . . . Zaborowska . . . displays the fascinating, delicious thrill she received from the people she interviewed." - Publishers Weekly, "Magdalena Zaborowska persuasively argues that Baldwin's Turkish years--1961 and 1971--are key to understanding his career. . . . I found her deceptively simple argument arresting: although the broad outlines of Baldwin's Turkish years are well known, to date, no scholar has set out to foreground place and atmosphere of composition so extensively." - Tavia Nyong'o, American Quarterly, "Zaborowska's determined research and sharp interpretations recast Baldwin's entire life project and show how his Turkish sojourn rendered American conceptions of sexuality, race, and citizenship more clearly. [A] beautifully imagined book. . . . Zaborowska shows the discontiguous routes of one particular writer to that destination and beyond it. In doing so, she reminds us that often the destination is as displaced as the traveler." - Shane Vogel, American Literature, "Zaborowska is a charming companion as she follows Baldwin's steps through Turkey, brimming with enthusiasm at the sights and at the warmth of her reception by his friends. . . . [S[he makes us feel how necessary such a refuge was as the sixties wore on." - Claudia Roth Pierpont, The New Yorker, "Illustrated with stunning photographs,James Baldwin's Turkish Decadepresents fascinating and little-known details about Baldwin's Turkey and offers a new way of reading his works from the 1960s to the early 1970s. A small, throwaway reference to Istanbul inAnother Countrynow appears momentous." Werner Sollors, Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English and African American Studies, Harvard University"Magdalena J. Zaborowska's excellent scholarship unearths new and little-known material about James Baldwin's time in Turkey, particularly through her interviews with Baldwin's friends and colleagues in Istanbul. Her original analyses of Baldwin's work in the context of his Turkish experiences are also outstanding." David Leeming, author ofJames Baldwin: A Biography, "Zaborowska takes great delight in detailing her subject's adventures in Turkey, vicariously bathing in the limelight of a distinguished, outspoken writer who pushed boundaries well before his time, and graced the homosexual world with writing that transcended both color and gender lines." - Jim Piechota, Bay Area Reporter

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal818/.5409 B

Table Of ContentList of Illustrations ix Preface: Sightings xiii Acknowledgments xxv Introduction: From Harlem to Istanbul 1 1. Between Friends: Looking for Baldwin in Constantinople 31 2. Queer Orientalisms in Another Country 91 3. Staging Masculinity in Dusenin Dostu 141 4. East to South: Homosexual Panic, the Old Country, and No Name in the Street 197 Conclusion: Welcome Tables East and West 249 Notes 265 Bibliography 331 Index 359

SynopsisShows that the decade Baldwin spent in Turkey is crucial to evaluating his contribution to American letters, especially to understanding the interdependence of race and the erotic in constructions of American identity., With full-service nationwide banking on the verge of becoming a reality in the U.S., here is a thoughtful analysis of how it emerged and what its effects will be. Dr. Rose is frankly skeptical. He sees advantages but he also predicts significant disadvantages, mainly in the form of possibly higher fees and reduced personal attention for consumers of banking services. His book provides the best summary available of the research findings to date and one of the best summaries of new federal interstate banking rules enacted by Congress and signed into law in 1994. This is an important book not only for executives engaged in government-relations work throughout the financial services industry, and for those engaged in marketing and strategic planning, but also for public policy people in the private and public sectors. Dr. Rose opens his book with an overview of the trend in U.S. banking towards a consolidated banking system similar to those in other industrialized nations, particularly Canada, Great Britain, and Germany. He identifies causes of this movement toward consolidation, attributable to governmental interventions and the exigencies of the private sector marketplace. He reviews the long history of federal and state restrictions against interstate banking and then explains how laws passed in the 1990s are permitting giant nationwide banking companies to emerge. What does this mean for the public, bankers, and investors? Less than what people think and have hoped for. Dr. Rose warns that many of the benefits expected from interstate banking will probably be nonexistent or at best meager. His book will certainly prove to be a vital resource for anyone involved in the banking industry and for those who influence it., Between 1961 and 1971 James Baldwin spent extended periods of time in Turkey, where he worked on some of his most important books. In this first in-depth exploration of Baldwin's "Turkish decade," Magdalena J. Zaborowska reveals the significant role that Turkish locales, cultures, and friends played in Baldwin's life and thought. Turkey was a nurturing space for the author, who by 1961 had spent nearly ten years in France and Western Europe and failed to reestablish permanent residency in the United States. Zaborowska demonstrates how Baldwin's Turkish sojourns enabled him to re-imagine himself as a black queer writer and to revise his views of American identity and U.S. race relations as the 1960s drew to a close. Following Baldwin's footsteps through Istanbul, Ankara, and Bodrum, Zaborowska presents many never published photographs, new information from Turkish archives, and original interviews with Turkish artists and intellectuals who knew Baldwin and collaborated with him on a play that he directed in 1969. She analyzes the effect of his experiences on his novel Another Country (1962) and on two volumes of his essays, The Fire Next Time (1963) and No Name in the Street (1972), and she explains how Baldwin's time in Turkey informed his ambivalent relationship to New York, his responses to the American South, and his decision to settle in southern France. James Baldwin's Turkish Decade expands the knowledge of Baldwin's role as a transnational African American intellectual, casts new light on his later works, and suggests ways of reassessing his earlier writing in relation to ideas of exile and migration.

LC Classification NumberPS3552.A45Z98 2008

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