ENGL 16012 - Writing Our Worlds: Baldin & Beyond

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WRITING OUR WORLDS: JAMES BALDWIN AND BEYOND This course aims to give us an opportunity to explore and to shape our own individual experiences of this (increasingly) strange reality, both through our own writing and through reading the works of a fellow writer facing a similar task. The great James Baldwin (1924-1987) wrote his worlds with incisive elegance and ethical urgency; his diagnosis of America’s pandemic of racism and other forms of injustice remains distressingly accurate today. Let’s follow his lead. Notes of a Native Son; Nobody Knows My Name; The Fire Next Time; No Name in the Street; The Devil Finds Work; The Cross of Redemption; Begin Again (Eddie Glaude, Jr.). [AH, W]