Me and My House

<div>The last sixteen years of James Baldwin's life (1971-87) unfolded in a village in the South of France in a sprawling house nicknamed Chez Baldwin. In <i>Me and My House</i> Magdalena J. Zaborowska employs Baldwin's home space as a lens through which to expand his biography and explore the politics and poetics of blackness queerness and domesticity in his complex and underappreciated later works. Zaborowska shows how the themes of dwelling and black queer male sexuality in <i>The Welcome Table</i> <i>Just above My Head</i> and <i>If Beale Street Could Talk</i> directly stem from Chez Baldwin's influence on the writer. The house was partially torn down in 2014. Accessible heavily illustrated and drawing on interviews with Baldwin's friends and lovers unpublished letters and manuscripts <i>Me and My House</i> offers new insights into Baldwin's life writing and relationships making it essential reading for all students scholars and fans of Baldwin.</div>