Baldwin on Top
Towards a Hetero-Anomalous Queer Calculus of Black Theology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20209254 |
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| Authors | EL Kornegay (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 328-338 |
| Publication date | 2012-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Black Theology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1476-9948 • E-ISSN: 1743-1670 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1558/blth.v10i3.328 |
| OpenAlex | W1570972359 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
This article will utilize a focused reading of James Baldwin’s corpus to explain, explore, expand, and amend a hetero-anomalous queer calculus. My investigation highlights James Baldwin as an example of oppositional (sexualized) discourse which, when viewed clearly, creates a radical inclusivity of subalterns. This discourse centers on the poor and unmasculine hetero/ homo-anomalous identities that remain marginalized and quasi-apparent within religious and theological structures. Baldwin’s own sexualized religious discourse exposes the notion of Black depravity as a self-imposed condition of invisibility used to construct race sacredness and Black respectability. As such, race sacredness precludes Baldwin’s influence on the nascent forms of Black liberation and queered bodies from the calculus of race sacredness. This is a calculus inferring a metaphorical equation for what constitutes a normative racial-sexual-religious identity. This condition sets the stage for (Black) homophobic discourse centered on an explicit indictment of homosexuality, while making transparent the implicit indictment of hetero-anomalies described here as the unmasculine
Aesthetics · Epistemology · Indictment · Invisibility · Linguistics · Normative · Physics · Political science · Queer · Queer theory · Sociology · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy · Race, History, and American Society
| Highly cited | No |
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