Heres How James Baldwin Changed How One a South Asian Author Reads Shakespeare (Exclusive)
I was 38 when I read James Baldwin for the first time. Even though I was an English major in college and earned a Master's in Fine Arts in creative writing, I had to wait until a social justice theory class in my PhD program before I encountered his essays. This was a failure of the U.S. education system, but felt like a personal failure, as well. Had I sought out Baldwin's work earlier, I would've known exactly what to say whenever someone asked me in an interview: Why are you writing Shakespeare adaptations as a South Asian woman?
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