A Different Perspective, Reading James Baldwin in Digital Age

The Dallas Institute for the Humanities

Dallas, Texas

December 6, 13, and 20, 2016

Institute Faculty

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During the month of December (2017), Dr. Kenton Rambsy will offer a three-part class on writer and social critic James Baldwin at the Dallas Institute for Humanities. The course, “A Different Perspective: Reading James Baldwin in the Digital Age,” will draw on various online data sources to situate Baldwin’s life and works within a larger continuum of African American literary history.

With the renewed attention on Baldwin, this course will use quantitative data and geographic coordinates to explore the literary imagination of the late writer. The course will explore the writer from three different dimensions: as an essayist, a short fiction writer, and “Baldwin online.” The interactive, discussion-based course will provide context in that helps explain the emergence of Baldwin during the 1950s and his impact on African American social thought.