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Another Country - James Baldwin - Reviews
Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature
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Novel by James Baldwin, published in 1962. The novel is renowned for its graphic
portrayal of bisexuality and interracial relations. Shortly after the action begins,
Rufus Scott, a black jazz musician, commits suicide, impelling his friends to search
for the meaning of his death and, consequently, for a deeper understanding of their
own identities. Employing a loose, episodic structure, this work traces the
affairs--heterosexual and homosexual as well as interracial--among Scott's friends.
In its language and structure, the novel is a departure from Baldwin's earlier work.
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