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Polyamorous Bastards: James Baldwin's Opening to a Queer African-American Religious Naturalism
- Carol Wayne White (author)
Chapter of: Meaningful Flesh: Reflections on Religion and Nature for a Queer Planet(pp. 23–53)
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| Title | Polyamorous Bastards |
|---|---|
| Subtitle | James Baldwin's Opening to a Queer African-American Religious Naturalism |
| Contributor | Carol Wayne White (author) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0194.1.04 |
| Landing page | https://punctumbooks.com/titles/meaningful-flesh-reflections-on-religion-and-nature-for-a-queer-planet/ |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ |
| Copyright | White, Carol Wayne |
| Publisher | punctum books |
| Published on | 2018-01-16 |
| Long abstract | At the height of the civil rights era in the twentieth century, James Baldwin poignantly described blacks’ experiences of marginality in North America. In a country besieged by white supremacy, he tried to capture the acute sense of displacement felt by African Americans with the creative use of the “bastard” epithet. In doing so, he drew richly from formative familial ex-periences and the black holiness tradition of his youth. Having never known his biological father and feeling estranged from his emotionally distant stepfather — a factory worker and storefront preacher whom his mother married when he was three — Bald-win would later write about the anguish of experiencing life as an “illegitimate” kid. In both acclaimed novels and critical es-says, he creatively used the bastard motif to augment a critical self-awareness associated with being the outsider and the ille-gitimate other. |
| Page range | pp. 23–53 |
| Print length | 31 pages |
| Language | English (Original) |
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