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James Baldwin Reading From Giovanni's Room [electronic resource] : From Great American Authors Read From Their Works, Volume 1

Baldwin, James2014
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It depicts a white American struggling to accept his homoerotic desires. David, the protagonist, like Baldwin himself, feels alienated from his native country and moves to Paris in search of a freer life. In the passage Baldwin reads on this recording, David recalls a childhood sexual encounter with another boy-an encounter that left him deeply upset and ambivalent about his manhood.
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