Soul Talk and Abolitionist Conversion: Alice Walker, James Baldwin, and Stanley Cavell

• In Event: Democratic Selves, Democratic Others: On Saving and Taking Care

Brief Overview

A close reading of the language of the soul in Walker, Baldwin and Cavell to highlight individual denial, complicity in oppression, and the need for a political conversion for true societal acknowledgment and healing to take place.

Author

• Felicity Stone-Richards, University of California-Santa Barbara