Magdalena J. Zaborowska James Baldwin biografie recensie, review en informatie over de inhoud. Op 25 maart 2025 verschijnt in de reeks Black Lifes van Yale University Press de biografie van de Amerikaanse schrijver James Baldwin geschreven door de Amerikaanse professor Magdalena J. Zaborowska. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de biografie is niet verkrijgbaar.

Magdalena J. Zaborowska James Baldwin biografie recensie, review en informatie

• “Baldwin authority Zaborowska’s gracefully impassioned biography of the queer author and activist’s life and legacy. … A creatively conceived appreciation for a decorated life and its far-flung influences on race, queer culture, and art.” (Kirkus Reviews)
• “Zaborowska not only produces one of the richest pictures of James Baldwin’s personal and professional lives ever written, but also, she boldly dives into the debates surrounding the ways that images of James (Jimmy) continue to be both used-and abused.” (Robert F. Reid-Pharr, New York University)

James Baldwin

The Life Album

• Auteur: Magdalena J. Zaborowska (Verenigde Staten)
• Soort boek: biografie
• Taal: Engels
• Uitgever: Yale University Press
• Reeks: Black Lifes
• Verschijnt: 25 maart 2025
• Omvang: 320 pagina’s
• Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
• Prijs: $ 28,00
• Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de nieuw biografie van James Baldwin

An intimate portrait of James Baldwin, offering a new understanding of his life and works as seen through his close relationships and private life.

James Baldwin (1924–1987) was a pivotal figure of the twentieth century, an influential author, intellectual, and activist who led a celebrated public life—and whose words and image and persona remain current in our culture. Baldwin’s many incarnations—“son of Harlem,” “Black icon,” “great twentieth-century writer,” “race man,” “prophet,” “witness”—have reemerged in the digital age as Baldwin’s work becomes a touchstone for a new generation. It is the private, vulnerable, and messier Baldwin—the man behind the prophet and the online meme—who is the focus of this book.

Magdalena J. Zaborowska draws on Baldwin’s archives and material legacy—from his unpublished papers to his books to his house in France—to offer a fresh look at the writer’s understated and obscured private life. Taking a cue from Baldwin’s own love of the blues, Zaborowska presents his biography as a series of tracks on a vinyl record, introducing, developing, and remixing the themes and relationships from his life. She recounts episodes from Baldwin’s troubled childhood, his struggles with sexuality and gender, his intimate relationships, and the overlooked influence of women, Jews, and queers on his writing. This Life Album revolves around Baldwin’s development of a unique worldview, “Black queer humanism,” premised on African diaspora aesthetics, resilience, joy, community, internationalism, activism, and justice.

Magdalena J. Zaborowska is professor and chair of the Department of American Culture and professor in the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. She is the author of several books, including Me and My House: James Baldwin’s Last Decade in France.

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