James Baldwin’s Another Country as an Abstract Machine
| dc.contributor.author | Odhiambo, David | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-04-11T21:24:01Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-04-11T21:24:01Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2017 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This article on James Baldwin’s third novel, Another Country, examines how abstract machines diagram an unfolding flow of desires in a bipolar process of becoming that produces two distinct genres in Baldwin’s novel, a protest-literature narrative and an asubjective text. One abstract machine, described as a machinic assemblage by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari in A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, shapes the perceptions (cognition), significations (meaning), and language (representation) of a protest-literature narrative that takes place in Greenwich Village during the late 1950s. Embedded within this text is an abstract machine described by Deleuze and Guattari as a collective assemblage of enunciation. Its bipolar movement interrupts Baldwin’s novel by rupturing the stable surface with neurologically based emotions expressed by a chain of significations that enable it to become a new text, and in doing so, unbecome what it was. Consequently, this article examines how these abstract machines shape a novel that generates new meanings for the reader as a result of this encounter of discourses. | |
| dc.format.extent | 19 pages | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Odhiambo, David N. “James Baldwin’s Another Country as an Abstract Machine.” Pacific Coast Philology, vol. 52, no. 1, 2017, pp. 69–87., www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/pacicoasphil.52.1.0069. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10790/3017 | |
| dc.language.iso | en-US | |
| dc.publisher | The Pennsylvania State University | |
| dc.relation.uri | www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/pacicoasphil.52.1.0069 | |
| dc.rights | Pacific Coast Philology, Vol. 52, No. 1, 2017, pages 69-87. "James Baldwin’s Another Country as an Abstract Machine" by David N. Odhiambo, Copyright © 2017, Penn State University Press. This article is used by permission of The Pennsylvania State University Press. | |
| dc.subject | Baldwin, James, -- 1924-1987. | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Criticism | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | African American authors -- 20th century | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Segregation | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Race discrimination -- United States. | |
| dc.title | James Baldwin’s Another Country as an Abstract Machine | |
| dc.type | Journal | |
| dc.type.dcmi | Text |