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.
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