Jimmy's Faith

Auteur

Christopher W. Hunt is Assistant Professor of Religion at Colorado College.

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Contenu

Preface | viii

Introduction | 1

1 Jimmy's Queer "Threshing-Floor":
Transformation and the Role of Disidentification in Baldwin's Fiction | 17
2 Jimmy's Communion: Race, Peoplehood, and the Tone of (Black) Community | 44
3 Jimmy's Eschaton: Hope in "the New Jerusalem" | 74
4 Jimmy's "Man": The Problem of Sexism in Baldwin's Literature | 102
5 Jimmy's (A)Theology: Toward a Black Agnostic Mysticism | 130
Coda | 149
Acknowledgments | 153
Notes | 157
Bibliography | 213
Index | 221