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On March 26, I covered a lecture by Kenneth Warren, Professor at the University of Chicago. Warren spoke about William Gardner Smith’s 1963 novel, The Stone Face, in a speech entitled, “A Common Disaster and One Long Memory: William Gardner Smith’s The Stone Face and the Problem of Solidarity.”
Coverage of the event done on coveritlive.com.
“Warren’s lecture will focus on Smith’s 1961 novel, which depicts the 1961 massacre of Algerian immigrants by the Paris police. The Stone Face, Warren argues, examines the grounds of solidarity between Algerians in Paris and African Americans in the Jim Crow South, and explores the tensions between African American literature as an imaginative practice and anti-colonialism as a political project.
Kenneth Warren is the Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago and a leading scholar of nineteenth- and twentieth-century American and African American literature. His books and essays have been influential since the early 1990s, and his most recent book, What Was African American Literature? (Harvard University Press, 2011), was as widely discussed as any recent work of literary criticism.”
—From the University of Tennessee
Jay Michael Miller 