All Fairfax Reads: James Baldwin: 'The Price of the Ticket' Film Viewing and Discussion
Wednesday, October 23, 2024 6:30 PM EDT
George Mason Meeting Room, George Mason Regional Library
Join us, in collaboration with Fairfax County Public Library's new series: All Fairfax Reads, for a screening of the 1990 documentary, James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket. The film uses striking archival footage to capture Baldwin's formative years. Newsreel clips and Baldwin's running commentary place his work in the context of African American literature and the Civil Rights movement.
Following the screening, George Mason University Professor Keith Clark will lead a discussion with the audience.
Not Rated. 87 minutes.
ABOUT: KEITH CLARK
Keith Clark is a Distinguished University Professor at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. He is a member of the department of English and an affiliate faculty in the program in African and African American Studies. He is the author of Black Manhood in James Baldwin, Ernest J. Gaines and August Wilson (University of Illinois Press, 2002), The Radical Fiction of Ann Petry (Louisiana State UP, 2013), and editor of Contemporary Black Men's Fiction and Drama (Illinois, 2001). His last book, Navigating the Fiction of Ernest J. Gaines: A Roadmap for Readers, was published by Louisiana State and was runner-up for the 2021 C. Hugh Holman Award for the best book in southern studies. His essays and reviews have in appeared in such publications as African American Review, Callaloo, Gay and Lesbian Quarterly, and Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology. His most recent essay, “Rootlessness: Afro-Pessimism as Foundation in Paradise,” was published last year in The Bloomsbury Handbook to Toni Morrison. His teaching and scholarly interests include Black Literary Masculinity Studies, African American Drama, and African American LGBTQ Literature and Criticism.
