Racial Consciousness in James Baldwin's Another Country
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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.