Darryl Pinckney's Lecture: Social and Racial Conflicts in American Literature in the 20th-21st Centuries

Playwright, novelist, literary critic Darryl Pinckney will hold an open lecture on the American literature.  
 

In 1992 the writer debuted with a semi-autobiographical novel High Cotton – about «growing up black and bourgeois» in America of the 1960s, which received the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Pinckney won The Los Angeles Times Award for that book. His later works (Sold and Gone: African American Literature and U.S. Society,2001; Out There: Mavericks of Black Literature, 2002; Blackballed: The Black Vote and US Democracy, 2014 etc.), also explore the theme of racism and social inequality in African-American literature. Pinckney often acts as an expert on this subject, participates in thematic public discussions.

 

As part of the project James Baldwin: Details