A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Black Man: The Implementation of “Artist-Artisan” in James Baldwin’s If Beale Street Could Talk
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This article explores how James Baldwin’s less known novel If Beale Street Could Talk could examine the meaning of black masculinity during the Civil Rights era by analyzing a black male protagonist Fonny’s dream as an artist and his transformation from an artist to an artisan. Here, the notion of Lynn O. Scott’s ‘artist-artisan’ serves an essential framework in this paper. By utilizing Scott’s term as an integrated concept that fulfills Baldwin’s ideal as well as reality, a black man’s dream as an artist and his change (or breakdown) will be closely examined and linked Baldwin’s identity as an artist and masculinity. Leaving Baldwin’s homosexual identity aside, he seems to depict this heterosexual black man, Fonny, in order to give readers leeway to interpret and comprehend how a young black man can possibly build up his presence both in a black community and in a dominant white society.
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This article explores how James Baldwin’s less known novel If Beale Street Could Talk could examine the meaning of black masculinity during the Civil Rights era by analyzing a black male protagonist Fonny’s dream as an artist and his transformation from an artist to an artisan. Here, the notion of Lynn O. Scott’s ‘artist-artisan’ serves an essential framework in this paper. By utilizing Scott’s term as an integrated concept that fulfills Baldwin’s ideal as well as reality, a black man’s dream as an artist and his change (or breakdown) will be closely examined and linked Baldwin’s identity as an artist and masculinity. Leaving Baldwin’s homosexual identity aside, he seems to depict this heterosexual black man, Fonny, in order to give readers leeway to interpret and comprehend how a young black man can possibly build up his presence both in a black community and in a dominant white society.
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