The symptom-image in James Baldwin’s Stranger in the Village: Black identity as territory
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https://doi.org/10.1590/SciELOPreprints.16798Keywords:
Image, Colonialism, Black IdentityAbstract
This article fosters a dialogue on the concepts of image and racial identity in James Baldwin’s essay “Stranger in a Village” (2020). The analysis focuses on Black identity as a territory, moving between the philosophy of art and critical theories in the humanities. It seeks to establish a connection with the concepts of the ‘image-symptom’ and the ‘image as a tear’, proposed by Georges Didi-Huberman (2013). Based on the contributions of Cida Bento (2022), Neusa Santos Souza (2021), Aimé Césaire (2010) and Frantz Fanon (2020), we infer that racism is understood as an expression of colonial invasion and the slave system, structured around relations of domination and extermination.
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Copyright (c) 2026 Magdiel Cormelyson Menezes, Ana Cristina Moraes, Jânderson Albino Coswosk

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