Volume : V, Issue : IX, September - 2015

Homosexuality in James Baldwin’s Novels

Ibrahim Mohammed Ali Alfagih, Dr. A Y. Badgujar

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James Baldwin was African American novelist and social critic. He was born illegitimate and black boy. But he became a well– known writer in bisexual and queer in African American literature writing with his novels. Baldwin’s acclaimed novels are Go Tell It on the Mountain, Giovanni’s Room, Another Country, Tell Me How Long the Train Been Gone, If Beale Street Could Talk, and Just Above My Head. This paper tries to show how homosexual is used in James Baldwin’s novels. James Baldwin carefully studied and disguised the homosexual theme in the first novel through John who was searching for his existence or identity, While, in Giovanni’s Room, homosexual was fully undisguised. The success of Giovanni’s Room as a gay and white novel made Baldwin to choose homosexual as main theme in his later novels. So, Baldwin opened the door in front of the next generation of gay writers to study and discus gay theme in their works.

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Ibrahim Mohammed Ali Alfagih, Dr.A Y.Badgujar Homosexuality in James Baldwin�s Novels Indian Journal of Applied Research, Vol.5, Issue : 9 September 2015

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