Lecture Series
Understanding Randall Kenan
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Description
April 11, 2019 at 4:00 p.m. in Peabody 206 The event will begin with Kenan reading from his work and will be followed by an interview by James A. Crank, author of Understanding Randall Kenan. Signing to follow. Copies of the book will be available for purchase. Randall Kenan is best known for his novel A Visitation of Spirits (1989) and his collection of stories Let the Dead Bury Their Dead (1992), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, was a nominee for a Los Angeles Times Book Prize for fiction, and named a New York Times Notable Book. Kenan is also the recipient of a , as well as the Whiting Writers Award, Sherwood Anderson Award, John Dos Passos Award, Rome Prize, and North Carolina Award for Literature. James A. Crank is an associate professor of American literature and culture at the University of Alabama, a National Humanities Center Fellow, and cohost of the podcast The Sound and the Furious. Crank’s essays have appeared in Agee Agonistes: Essays on the Life, Legend, and Works of James Agee and Southerners on Film: Essays on Hollywood Portrayals since the 1970s. In addition to his book on Kenan, Crank has written Understanding Sam Shepard (2012), New Approaches to Gone with the Wind (2015), and Race and New Modernisms (2019).
Publication Date
4-11-2019
Relational Format
presentation
Disciplines
Fiction
Recommended Citation
Kenan, Randall and Crank, James A., "Understanding Randall Kenan" (2019). Lecture Series. 1.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/eng_lec/1