James Baldwin's Afro-Optimism
Thursday 19 March, 2015
4:30 - 6:30pm, $0
CUNY Center for the Humanities
365 Fifth Avenue, Room 5109
John E. Drabinski is Professor of Black Studies at Amherst College. In addition to authoring three books, including most recently Levinas and the Postcolonial: Race, Nation, Other (Edinburgh), he has written over three dozen articles in French philosophy and Africana theory, and has edited book and journal issues on Fanon, Godard, Levinas, Glissant, and the question of political reconciliation. He has just completed a book-length study of Glissant's poetics entitled Abyssal Beginnings, a translation and critical introduction to Éloge de la créolité, and is currently drafting a book entitled ‘So Unimaginable a Price’: James Baldwin and the Black Atlantic.