Date of Submission
Spring 2018
Academic Programs and Concentrations
Literature
Project Advisor 1
Matthew Mutter
Abstract/Artist's Statement
An analysis of hidden self-knowledge in James Baldwin's writing. James Baldwin is a political psychologist who seeks to understand the self through what it remains "innocent" to. I explore Baldwin's metaphors and concepts of "masked" knowledge, and argue that Baldwin translates psychological tropes into political ones.
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Recommended Citation
Fields, Chloe Zeff, ""Mirrors Can Only Lie:" The Search for Masked Self-Knowledge in the Work of James Baldwin" (2018). Senior Projects Spring 2018. 345.
https://digitalcommons.bard.edu/senproj_s2018/345
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