race relations as the 1960s drew to a close.įollowing 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. 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. 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 reveals the significant role that Turkish locales, cultures, and friends played in Baldwin’s life and thought. In this first in-depth exploration of Baldwin’s “Turkish decade,” Magdalena J. Labor and Working-Class History Associationīetween 19 James Baldwin spent extended periods of time in Turkey, where he worked on some of his most important books.
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