Love as resistance
A brief analysis of James Baldwin’s If Beale street could talk
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James Baldwin, Love, Racism, African American LiteratureAbstract
James Baldwin (1924-1987) is a unique name not only in the literary realm, but in the civil rights activist universe. When published in 1974, Beale Street spoke generated controversial criticism of Baldwin, a novel that deals with the drama of a young African American couple. At the age of fifty, despite the incessant activism and respectable intellectual production, he insisted on fit it into a specific genre, style, theme. However, Baldwin proved to be free and put himself where he intended to be any kind of injustice, regardless of criticism or doctrine. And if there is a theme to be defended, this is love as resistance to social conventions. The objective of this work is to identify the fictional strategies in the present narrative that establish dialogues with the thinking of James Baldwin defended in the essays contained in Fire next time (1963) and Nobody no name (1961).
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