Table of Contents:
  • White fantasies of desire: Baldwin and the racial identities of sexuality / Marlon B. Ross
  • Now more than ever: James Baldwin and the critique of white liberalism / Rebecca Aanerud
  • Finding the words: Baldwin, race consciousness, and democratic theory / Lawrie Balfour
  • Culture, rhetoric, and queer identity: James Baldwin and the identity politics of race and sexuality / William J. Spurlin
  • Of mimicry and (little man little) man: toward a queersighted theory of black childhood / Nicholas Boggs
  • Sexual exiles: James Baldwin and Another country / James A. Dievler
  • Baldwin's cosmopolitan loneliness / James Darsey
  • "Alas, poor Richard!": transatlantic Baldwin, the politics of forgetting, and the project of modernity / Michelle M. Wright
  • The parvenu Baldwin and the other side of redemption: modernity, race, sexuality, and the Cold War / Roderick A. Ferguson
  • (Pro)creating imaginative spaces and other queer acts: Randal Kenan's A visitation of spirits and its revival of James Baldwin's absent black gay man in Giovanni's room / Sharon Patricia Holland
  • "I'm not entirely what I look like": Richard Wright, James Baldwin, and the hegemony of vision; or, Jimmy's FBEye blues / Maurice Wallace
  • Life according to the beat: James Baldwin, Bessie Smith, and the perilous sounds of love / Josh Kun
  • The discovery of what it means to be a witness: James Baldwin's dialectics of difference / Joshua L. Miller
  • Selfhood and strategy in notes of a Native son / Lauren Rusk.