1. James Baldwin
The essay Stranger in the Village has been much collected; it reported on the author's unique experience of being the first black man encountered by a small Swiss village, and it became the instrument for expressing forcefully and gently the basic premise of the racial revolution in the twentieth century: "the people who shut their eyes to reality simply in! ... Giovanni's Room and Another Country "featured characters struggling to define sexual, racial, and national identities, and the matter-of-fact depictions of gay relationships in both books surprised many readers" (ht! ...
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- Grade Level: High School