In a global case, the Self is Europe and the Western world. ”Other” is defined as everything that exists outside of oneself. Another Country, which takes place in the late 1950s and early 1960s, explores the theme of the “Other” in great detail.
Published at the flight of America’s civil rights movement, the effects of prejudice are evident in Baldwin’s longest and most complex work. Vivaldo and Eric are just two characters of Baldwin’s Another Country who suffer under the heavy weight of love. Vivaldo goes on, “And haven’t we got the right to hope-for more? So that we can really stretch into whoever we really are?” In bed beside his lover, Vivaldo, a protagonist of James Baldwin’s Another Country (1962), responds to a declaration of love: “.what can we really do for each other except-just love each other and be each other’s witness?” Eric, the man Vivaldo is sleeping with, sits staring as the complication of their love rips through him.
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