James Baldwin – That Shakespearean Rag

Walking the tightrope: Mélikah Abeldmoumen uses the friendship between James Baldwin and William Styron to comment on race, writing, and appropriation

The text is a valuable examination of certain points of dissension or disagreement ongoing in our culture.

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Baldwin's literary aesthetic was predicated upon the notion of the complexity of individuals, regardless of race, class, or occupation.

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Failure is inevitable because perfection is unattainable.

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"It was like nothing I've ever seen – someone trying to take a whole section," says co-founder Barb Minett.

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