Go Tell It On The Mountain: James Baldwin

ESSAY ABOUT GIOVANNI’S ROOM OF JAMES BALDWIN
To a short introduction, I’m goint to talk about one of the most meetings black writers, this black was met by his great novels for first half of 20th century. James Baldwin was a black writer, he was born in Harlem. During this time, Baldwin also had a love affair with a man named Lucien Happersberger, an experience upon which he must have drawn for Giovanni 's Room. The two became very close, but after several years, Lucien married a woman. Baldwin dedicated Giovanni 's Room to Lucien. Baldwin tented to write a controversial novel and finally got it with his novel Giovanni’s room. Baldwin 's literary reputation bloomed with his semi-autobiographical first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain,
In the early stages of the relationship, David acknowledges the limitations of the space but accepts it. However as David feels his masculinity being smothered by Giovanni, the room becomes and oppressive symbol; something he must escape if he is to regain his misguided masculine identity. The symbol of the room is particularly interesting considering the novel’s subject matter. In the novel, David is engaging in his first public homosexual relationship and it could be seen as his first forays into officially “coming out”. Despite the novel being built around the male characters and their burgeoning yet uncomfortable homosexual/homosocial bonding, the female characters both present and absent play a pivotal role in the text. Both Giovanni and David have come from heterosexual relationships that are hugely influential in their new relationship and how they relate to one another. As we learn towards the end of the novel, Giovanni has previously been married to a woman and they had a child who tragically died in his infancy. If we look to comments Baldwin himself made regards homosexuality it’s clear that his view is far less troubled that that of David’s. He