James Baldwin’s Hypothetical Novel: “Ignorant Armies” and the Making of Another Country
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: This article presents a genealogy of James Baldwin’s novel Another Country through a series of archival manuscripts dating from 1944. It argues that the nearly two-decades writing process informs a central theme of Another Country: the painful self-knowledge that comes from self-confrontation. The article offers this explanation to complement other contemporary interpretations of this theme of self-knowledge, particularly those of Mikko Tuhkanen and E. J. Martínez.
Source: James Baldwin Review
DOI: 10.7227/jbr.10.10
Author: Nicholas Bredie
Institution: Utah Valley University
Language: English
Subfield: History
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4402746500