Sometimes this leads to a “triangulation of desire,” in which A professes to love B, but is really more interested in a relationship with C, who in turn might be an interested observer of the connection between A and B. Often, when two characters try to connect, there’s a third character around (physically or psychologically) to complicate the situation.How would you define “privilege” in Another Country? Is Cass the most privileged character, and if so, by what standard? Who else figures as privileged? What advantages do they maintain? Are they aware of these advantages? Do they feel guilty? Do they wield their advantages against others? After her liaison with Eric, Cass muses on her “privilege,” summoning a word that has reemerged in current cultural discourse.How does Rufus’s drumming, Ida’s singing, or the blues music filling the bars and apartments work to set the novel’s atmosphere? Pick a few examples in which music lends coherence to the narrative or commentary on what the characters are doing or thinking.Any form of plagiarism can result in failure of the course.
If you want to make brief reference to another novel by Baldwin or someone else, that’s fine, but please don’t go to online sources looking for what someone else thinks about Another Country. Instead, work with what you’ve uncovered as you’ve read.
The term paper will give you an opportunity to explore a set of texts in greater depth. Each short paper is an opportunity for you to cover a key issue in our current reading. The papers should be four pages long, double-spaced.
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