State of the Arts
John Keene, Experimental Writer
Clip: Season 37 Episode 5 | 6m 26sVideo has Closed Captions
MacArthur Genius John Keene is the author of a book of stories about the African diaspora.
2018 MacArthur “Genius” John Keene is the author of Counternarratives, a book of experimental stories set in the African diaspora following the introduction of the slave trade to the Americas. Keene describes the power of fiction, and we visit his graduate creative writing seminar at Rutgers University-Newark, where he is a professor of English and chair of African and African American Studies.
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State of the Arts
John Keene, Experimental Writer
Clip: Season 37 Episode 5 | 6m 26sVideo has Closed Captions
2018 MacArthur “Genius” John Keene is the author of Counternarratives, a book of experimental stories set in the African diaspora following the introduction of the slave trade to the Americas. Keene describes the power of fiction, and we visit his graduate creative writing seminar at Rutgers University-Newark, where he is a professor of English and chair of African and African American Studies.
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