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"Mirrors Can Only Lie:" The Search For Masked Self-Knowledge In The Work Of James Baldwin, Chloe Zeff Fields
"Mirrors Can Only Lie:" The Search For Masked Self-Knowledge In The Work Of James Baldwin, Chloe Zeff Fields
Senior Projects Spring 2018
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.