Racial Consciousness in James Baldwin's Another Country

Abstract

James Baldwin'sAnother Countryreveals that there is no black utopia, no place where an Afro-American can escape the iniquities of racism. Rufus Scott Commits suicide which in fact is a "racial murder", enacted upon him by the effects of racism. More importantly,Another Countrysuggests that the Afro- American have not yet found a model for thinking and speaking outside the frame of racist ideology. So, the wish for an 'another country', a place where relationships are not fractured by racial difference, remains an imaginary and mythic one.