{"613003":{"#nid":"613003","#data":{"type":"news","title":"WCP Faculty Research - Jeff Fallis","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFallis\u0026#39;s article examines the underconsidered topic of James Baldwin\u0026#39;s engagement with the American South in his fiction, nonfiction, and drama from the late 50s to the early 70s and makes a case for the region\u0026#39;s central importance in the development of Baldwin\u0026#39;s psyche and career. It especially is concerned with the construction of identity in white and black Southerners and the South\u0026#39;s tendency to deny and censor its historical legacy of racial violence. The essay, included in the 2018 edition of James Baldwin Review, is available online through the Manchester University Press website.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Jeff Fallis\u0027s article in James Baldwin Review"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJames Baldwin has frequently been written about in terms of his relationship to geographical locations such as Harlem, Paris, Istanbul, and \u0026ldquo;the transatlantic,\u0026rdquo; but his longstanding connection to the American South, a region that served as a vexed and ambiguous spiritual battleground for him throughout his life and career, has been little discussed, even though Baldwin referred to himself as \u0026ldquo;in all but no technical legal fact, a Southerner.\u0026rdquo; This article argues that the South has been seriously underconsidered as a major factor in Baldwin\u0026rsquo;s psyche and career and that were it not for the challenge to witness the Southern Civil Rights movement made to Baldwin in the late 1950s, he might never have left Paris and become the writer and thinker into which he developed. It closely examines Baldwin\u0026rsquo;s fictional and nonfictional engagements with the American South during two distinct periods of his career, from his first visit to the region in 1957 through the watershed year of 1963, and from 1963 through the publication of Baldwin\u0026rsquo;s retrospective memoir No Name in the Street in 1972, and it charts Baldwin\u0026rsquo;s complex and often contradictory negotiations with the construction of identity in white and black Southerners and the South\u0026rsquo;s tendency to deny and censor its historical legacy of racial violence. A few years before his death, Baldwin wrote that \u0026ldquo;[t]he spirit of the South is the spirit of America,\u0026rdquo; and this essay investigates how the essential question he asked about the region\u0026mdash;whether it\u0026rsquo;s a bellwether for America\u0026rsquo;s moral redemption or moral decline\u0026mdash;remains a dangerous and open one.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Third-year Brittain Fellow Jeff Fallis has published his first peer-reviewed article, \u0022\u0027So sensual, so languid, and so private\u0027: James Baldwin\u0027s American South,\u0022 in the 2018 edition of James Baldwin Review from Manchester University Press."}],"uid":"34885","created_gmt":"2018-10-19 13:09:36","changed_gmt":"2018-10-19 13:09:51","author":"rfitzsimmons3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2018-10-01T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2018-10-01T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.manchesteropenhive.com\/abstract\/journals\/jbr\/4\/1\/jbr.4.issue-1.xml","title":"James Baldwin Review"}],"groups":[{"id":"491031","name":"Writing and Communication Program"}],"categories":[{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"179434","name":"James Baldwin"},{"id":"179435","name":"American South"},{"id":"179436","name":"African-American Literature"},{"id":"172561","name":"Southern Studies"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":["jeffrey.fallis@lmc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}