The Year of James Baldwin - Another Country: Seeing Place from a Distanc...

The New School

Published on Mar 26, 2015

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This event is part of the year-long, city-wide celebration The Year of James Baldwin, which is presented in partnership with Harlem Stage, Columbia University School of the Arts and New York Live Arts, and in collaboration with the Vera List Center for Art and Politics (http://www.veralistcenter.org), the School of Media Studies (http://www.newschool.edu/public-engag...), and the MFA Creative Writing Program (http://www.newschool.edu/public-engag...) from The New School.

About leaving his native country, James Baldwin argues, “One sees it better from a distance…from another place, from another country.” Can displacement (voluntary or otherwise) bring a writer to write more clearly about her “home” or herself? Is the tension between Baldwin and the places about which he writes, the complications between himself and those places, a necessary component to his success? Panelists will discuss the ways in which Baldwin’s view of place informed his work.

With Dante Micheaux and Darryl Pinckney.

Moderated by Tracyann Williams, faculty, School of Undergraduate Studies