In this new series of Literary Conversations, New Polis general editor Roger Green engages with contemporary writers on aesthetic and thematic trends in their work. The initial conversation is posted above, followed by Roger’s reflections on the conversation below. Steven Dunn is the author of the novels Potted Meat (Tarpaulin…
Critical Race Theory
Prophets In Spite Of Themselves – Foucault And Baldwin On Truth And Innocence (Corey McCall)
Recently scholars have begun to consider various ways that the work of Michel Foucault and James Baldwin might converge. Typically, comparisons between the two writers have been staged on the field of politics, through considerations of how they thought, for example, about power or identity.(47-64) Instead this paper proposes to…