Logan, you provided good textual analysis for your argument, but I wonder if you missed part of the point that Baldwin was trying to make. Instead of drawing a clean line between the small town and the United States and their treatment of black Americans, I think he might be trying to show a link between the way that the villagers of Leukerbad and…[Read more]
In reply to - Logan wrote a new post, Identity; Baldwin’s Dilemma, on the site Memoirs 2016 In his essay, Stranger in the Village, James Baldwin is able to analyze the significance of the historically intertwined relationship […]↧