James Baldwin’s Turkish Decade Revisited with Dr. Magdalena Zaborowska

'Professor Magdalena Zaborowska  discusses aspects of James Baldwin’s life in Istanbul by revisiting her Duke University Press book, James Baldwin’s Turkish Decade (2009). She outlines phases in Baldwin’s life that he chose based on homophobia and racism in the United States. Therefore, an alternative family of friends was formed through exploring exile in Turkey. Baldwin primarily lived in a small room and wrote exhaustively to finish his third novel – Another Country.' -- John Hope Franklin Center at Duke University