A presentation and discussion featuring John E. Drabinski (Black Studies at Amherst College

In addition to authoring three books, including most recently Levinas and the Postcolonial: Race, Nation, Other (Edinburgh), John E. Drabinski has written over three dozen articles in French philosophy and Africana theory, and has edited book and journal issues on Fanon, Godard, Levinas, Glissant, and the question of political reconciliation. He has just completed a book-length study of Glissant’s poetics entitled Abyssal Beginnings, a translation and critical introduction to Éloge de la créolité, and is currently drafting a book entitled ‘So Unimaginable a Price’: James Baldwin and the Black Atlantic.