On 20 November, we’ll be reading a longer work than usual: James Baldwin’s 1956 novel Giovanni’s Room. Sometimes described as Baldwin’s most controversial fiction, Giovanni’s Room explores home, nationality and sexuality in the setting of postwar Paris.
“Perhaps, as we say in America, I wanted to find myself… I think now that if I had had any intimation that the self I was going to find would turn out to be only the same self from which I had spent so much time in flight, I would have stayed at home.” -James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
Text, Time, Place:
James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room (1956)
13:00-14:30, Wed 20 Nov 2019
Arts 439 (Shackleton Room, Arts building 4th floor)
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Image: Detail from artwork for BBC Radio 3 adaptation of Giovanni’s Room.
About the Postgraduate Seminar:
This is an informal weekly reading group within the Department of English Literature. There will be tea, coffee and biscuits and you are very welcome!
