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"A City is Not a Place of Origins": Mapping Black Queer Identity in the Work of Dionne Brand and James Baldwin

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Year: 2019, 2019
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Jones, Cait, Thesis advisor (ths): Epp, Michael, Degree committee member (dgc): Eddy, Charmaine, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
Abstract: <p>This thesis explores the work of Black queer authors who write and reproduce cities in their texts. James Baldwin and Dionne Brand create knowable and readable spaces of the cities in which they write. By studying the work of these two authors, this thesis seeks to understand how Black queer people navigate city spaces, and how Black queer authors create a literary imaginary about the… more
Full Text: “A City is Not a Place of Origins”: Mapping Black Queer Identity in the Work of Dionne Brand and James Baldwin A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in the …