James Baldwin’s David from "Giovanni’s Room" as a Straight-Acting Gay Man. Characteristics of Straight-Acting E-Book

• Herausgeber: GRIN Verlag
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2024

Beschreibung

Seminar paper from the year 2021 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies, grade: 1,7, University of Göttingen, language: English, abstract: To begin with, it is fundamental to define the term straight-acting and thereby set limitations to this paper. As it can already easily be derived from the word itself, straight-acting obviously refers to people that are trying to behave in a heterosexual way, although they are not. More importantly is, however, the understanding of behaving in a heterosexual way. The following chapters will elaborate on these characteristics in more detail and it will be shown how they can be found in David.