{"id":528,"date":"2019-11-13T14:48:38","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T14:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/?p=528"},"modified":"2019-11-26T22:46:03","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T22:46:03","slug":"giovannis-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/englitpostgrad\/2019\/11\/13\/giovannis-room\/","title":{"rendered":"Giovanni’s Room (Wed 20 Nov)"},"content":{"rendered":"

On 20 November, we’ll be reading a longer work than usual: James Baldwin’s 1956 novel Giovanni’s Room. Sometimes described as Baldwin’s most controversial fiction, Giovanni’s Room explores home, nationality and sexuality in the setting of postwar Paris.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

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\u201cPerhaps, as we say in America, I wanted to find myself… I think now that if I had had any intimation that the self I was going to find would turn out to be only the same self from which I had spent so much time in flight, I would have stayed at home.\u201d -James Baldwin, Giovanni\u2019s Room<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

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James Baldwin,\u00a0Giovanni’s Room\u00a0<\/em>(1956)<\/p>\r\n

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