Food for Thought: A series of public events featuring research and creative projects by recent CAS Associates and Fellows.
We are delighted to showcase the work of some of our most productive and creative faculty in this informal series of intellectually and spiritually invigorating presentations. You are invited to drop in when you can to learn about the exciting projects undertaken by our faculty.
David Wright Faladé, CAS Associate 2023-24, English
From Nonfiction to Fiction and Back: Excavating a Memoir from The New Internationals
Writing the new novel, The New Internationals—which tells the story of an unlikely love triangle between a Holocaust survivor, a student from the region of colonial West Africa that had been known as the Slave Coast, and a Black GI, characters based upon Professor Wright Faladé's parents—took two decades and, with each new discovery during research, illustrated the cliché that fact is indeed stranger than most fiction we could imagine. Now, Professor Wright Faladé has begun a nonfiction treatment of the material— what The New Yorker calls “Personal History” (rather than “memoir”)—that aims to explore the “mixedness” that is at the heart of Americanness.