Race, Dissent, and Literary Imagination in John Bunyan and James Baldwin

• Published in: Bunyan studies no. 21; pp. 9 - 32
• Main Author: Breen, Margaret Sönser
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Newcastle Upon Tyne Northumbria University, Department of Humanities, Faculty of Arts, Design and Social Sciences 01.01.2017
• Subjects: Adolescents; African American literature; Allegory; Allusion; American literature; Baldwin, James (1924-1987); Bible; Bildungsroman; Biographies; Black Lives Matter movement; British & Irish literature; Bunyan, John (1628-1688); Christianity; English literature; Essays; Exegesis & hermeneutics; Fate; Grief; Intersectionality; Literary characters; Literary criticism; Literary devices; Literary translation; Literature; Murders & murder attempts; Narrative techniques; Narratives; Novels; Oppression; Plot (Narrative); Politics; Race; Rankine, Claudia (1963- ); Readers; Religion; Sexuality; Spirituality

'Since I had been born in a Christian nation, I accepted this Deity as the only one. The novel blends elements of autobiography, biblical language, along with religious conversion, with a homoerotic coming-of-age narrative in which Baldwin begins his life-long literary mission to explore the in...