Tragic Love and Alienation in Another Country by James Baldwin
Tragic Love and Alienation in Another Country by James Baldwin

Summary/Abstract: Now, that globalization has blurred the borders between countries, traditions and ways of life, social intelligence plays an important role in gaining success in life. Making a home far away from your native place has become a natural choice for more and more people, encouraged by virtual relationships as well as more accessible travel opportunities. Accordingly, if we want to feel at home anywhere in the world, problems like racial and sexual discrimination have to be corrected by an open, easy-going attitude and unconditional respect. However, one should not undermine the price with which such values have been achieved and the harm that certain ideologies, once implemented in the collective psyche, have created by reducing people to subjects defined in terms of class, gender and sex. The novel suggested for analysis is Another Country by James Baldwin ,which focuses on tragic destinies of people abused by the society they live in and even by their own family and relations. The world depicted by this novel is gloomy and grey, burdened by remorse, frustrations and compromise. The struggle to survive is often harsh and absurd, and so is the world which generates it.

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