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"Lucid, candid reflections on Black identity."― KIRKUS Set mainly in Greenwich Village and Harlem, James Baldwin's 1962 novel, Another Country , is a groundbreaking work of sexual, racial and artistic passions that is stunning for its emotional intensity and haunting sensuality. In her volume in Ig's acclaimed Bookmarked series, award winning author and essayist Kim McLarin shares her appreciation of this seminal novel, demonstrating how its myriad themes― including relations between men and women (gay and straight, Black and white), the meaning of creativity, and the ecstasy and pain of love―mirror many of her own life experiences. In this critical and personal examination, we come to better understand a pioneering novel and writer, as well as the role race, class and gender have played in Kim's life, and by extension, contemporary American society.
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"The book's six-part structure--divided into thematic clusters such as 'Men' and 'Women,' but which overlap--provides some loose organization but allows McLarin to slip between modes in her analysis and make meaningful connections between the book, her lived experience and the contemporary state of the world."
"This brief book does much to remind us of the ways that literature lasts."
"McLarin expands on her previous essay collection, Womanish, to once again offer cogent insights about identity, racism, sex and sexuality, family and education, reading and writing, and the 'Black, Pentecostal, one-parent, southern existence' from which she emerged ..."
"McLarin is both generous and critical of Baldwin, acknowledging the undercurrents of misogyny in his writing, and is an astute and sensitive reader."
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