Reading the Sensual in James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room
In The Fire Next Time, African American writer James Baldwin describes the sensual as, “respect[ing] and rejoice[ing] in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread” (1998c 311). Baldwinian sensuality is divorced from...
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Association Française d'Etudes Américaines
2023-11-01
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| Series: | Transatlantica |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/21591 |