“I love America more than any other country”: National and Racial Identity in Baldwin’s “This Morning, This Evening, So Soon”
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Adrienne Akins, « “I love America more than any other country”: National and Racial Identity in Baldwin’s “This Morning, This Evening, So Soon” », Journal of the Short Story in English, ID : 10670/1.wti3vf
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In Notes of a Native Son (1955), James Baldwin poignantly captured the nature of his intense feelings for his nation of birth in stating: “I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually” (9). The complex interaction between racial and national identity is a prominent theme throughout Baldwin’s body of work, but perhaps nowhere does the author explore this theme in more depth and nuance than in “This Mo...