Primary Sources:<\/p>\n
Baldwin, James.\u00a0Giovanni\u2019s Room<\/em>. Delta Trade Paperbacks, 2000.<\/p>\n Koolaids by Rabih Alameddine<\/p>\n Hollinghurst, Alan. The Swimming-Pool Library<\/i>. First Vintage international edition., Vintage Books, 1989.<\/p>\n Mah\u0323fu\u0304z\u0323, Naji\u0304b. Palace Walk<\/i>. Doubleday, 1990<\/p>\n Mah\u0323fu\u0304z\u0323, Naji\u0304b. Palace of Desire<\/i>. First edition., Doubleday, 1991.<\/p>\n Mah\u0323fu\u0304z\u0323, Naji\u0304b. Sugar Street<\/i>. First edition in the U.S., Doubleday, 1992.<\/p>\n Keywords:<\/p>\n Journal:<\/p>\n James Baldwin Review.<\/em>\u00a0Manchester University Press, 2023.<\/p>\n Secondary Sources:<\/p>\n Butler, Judith.\u00a0Gender Trouble\u202f: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity<\/em>. Routledge, 2007.<\/p>\n Donica, Joseph. \u201c\u2018Addressing a Virus, a War, or Oneself\u2019: Everyday Life in Rabih Alameddine\u2019s Koolaids: The Art of War.\u201d College Literature<\/i>, vol. 46, no. 2, 2019, pp. 424\u201352, https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1353\/lit.2019.0017.<\/p>\n Hout, Syrine. \u201cTo Paint and Die in Arabic: Code-Switching in Rabih Alameddine\u2019s Koolaids: The Art of War.\u201d Arab Studies Quarterly<\/i>, vol. 40, no. 4, 2018, pp. 277\u201399, https:\/\/doi.org\/10.13169\/arabstudquar.40.4.0277.<\/p>\n Hout, Syrine. \u201cKoolaids and Unreal City.\u201d Post-War Anglophone Lebanese Fiction<\/i>, Edinburgh University Press, 2022, pp. 21\u201351, https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1515\/9780748643431-005.<\/p>\n Karmakar, Pritikana, and Nagendra Kumar. \u201cThe Body Writes Back: The Pharmacopolitics of Cure and Care in Rabih Alameddine\u2019s Koolaids: The Art of War.\u201d QScience Connect<\/i>, vol. 2022, no. 3, 2022, https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5339\/connect.2022.medhumconf.28.<\/p>\n Robert F. Reid-Pharr, 1997. “Tearing the Goat\u2019s Flesh: Crisis, Homosexuality, Abjection, and the Production of a Late-Twentieth-Century Black Masculinity”, Novel Gazing: Queer Readings in Fiction, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick<\/p>\n Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky, and Wayne Koestenbaum.\u00a0Between Men\u202f: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire<\/em>. Thirtieth anniversary edition, Columbia University Press, 2015, https:\/\/doi.org\/10.7312\/koso17629<\/a>.<\/p>\n Shannahan, Dervla. \u201cReading Queer A\/Theology into Rabih Alameddine\u2019s Koolaids.\u201d Feminist Theology<\/i>, vol. 19, no. 2, 2011, pp. 129\u201342, https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/0966735010383800.<\/p>\n Explanatory Essay:<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In creating the above list of sources and keywords I began with the choice of my primary source options: Giovanni\u2019s Room <\/em>and Tell Me How Long the Train\u2019s Been Gone. <\/em>I have decided to write about these texts in particular because I find them to be extremely compelling, and for the most part, they follow Professor Moffat\u2019s advice that we should choose to write about something that we find ourselves thinking about anyway. Indeed, Baldwin\u2019s work is gripping and his ability to create complex characters with interesting identities and relationships makes his novels fascinating.<\/p>\n What I find interesting these works in the nature of relationships between men. How the lines between relationships of a sexual nature, and friendships come to be. With this inquiry in mind, Between Men <\/em>by Sedgwick is an obvious inclusion. It seems, to me at least, to be absolutely critical reading for the discussion of this topic. I have read excerpts from this particular book in previous courses and enjoyed reading it as well. It seems also, that this line of questioning is tied directly to ideas of queerness, masculinity, and identity. Thus, the inclusion of the above keywords, \u201cBlack Masculinity\u201d is specified in this case because Baldwin sees these two as completely intertwined with one another. Following in this thought process I then selected Gender Trouble<\/em> by Judith Butler and The History of Sexuality <\/em>by Foucault as understanding the development of sexuality as identity is critical to answering my questions. Further, sexual and gender identity as very tightly tied to one another, and thus Butler\u2019s work is absolutely necessary as well.<\/p>\n Update:<\/p>\n My topic has changed significantly. Over Fall Pause I reread “Koolaids” by Rabih Alameddine and decided that I would like to write about the relationship between Queerness and Death in “Giovanni’s Room” and “Koolaids.” Professor Johnston recommended that I read “The Swimming-Pool Library” and “The Cairo Trilogy” because they cover the two areas that “Koolaids” is about. “The Swimming-Pool Library” is a novel about the AIDS Pandemic, and “The Cairo Trilogy” is a queer narrative set in an Arab country. As such, these books have found their way into my Reading List. My current thinking is that I will most likely abandon Baldwin entirely, and move towards narratives of the AIDS pandemic.<\/p>\n I have also added a number of scholarly sources on “Koolaids” to my list and removed the entire collection of Baldwin’s essays and Foucault from my List. In place of the essay collection I have put “Here Be Dragons” one of my all time favorite Baldwin works. The removal of these sources should better allow me to tackle these complex ideas and focus my energy on subjects more directly related to my area of interest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Primary Sources: Baldwin, James.\u00a0Giovanni\u2019s Room. Delta Trade Paperbacks, 2000. Baldwin, James.\u00a0Tell Me How Long the Train\u2019s Been Gone; a Novel. Dial Press, 1968.\u00a0 Koolaids by Rabih Alameddine Hollinghurst, Alan. The Swimming-Pool Library. First Vintage international edition., Vintage Books, 1989. Mah\u0323fu\u0304z\u0323, Naji\u0304b. Palace Walk. Doubleday, 1990 Mah\u0323fu\u0304z\u0323, Naji\u0304b. Palace of Desire. First edition., Doubleday, 1991. Mah\u0323fu\u0304z\u0323, … Continue reading Updated: Reading List<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5366,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145914],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2024-blog-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/403lit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/403lit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/403lit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/403lit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/403lit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/403lit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/403lit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/403lit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/403lit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Baldwin, James.\u00a0Tell Me How Long the Train\u2019s Been Gone; a Novel.<\/em> Dial Press, 1968.\u00a0<\/del><\/p>\n\n
Baldwin, James.\u00a0Collected Essays<\/em>. Library of America, 1998.\u00a0<\/del><\/p>\nFoucault, Michel, and Robert Hurley.\u00a0The History of Sexuality<\/em>. First Vintage Books edition., Vintage Books, 1988.<\/del><\/p>\n