{"id":1086,"date":"2023-12-05T20:08:36","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T01:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/jamesbaldwin\/?p=1086"},"modified":"2023-12-05T20:08:36","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T01:08:36","slug":"final-blog-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/jamesbaldwin\/2023\/12\/05\/final-blog-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Final Blog Post"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I took this course because as an English major I thought that taking a class solely on the works of James Baldwin was essential to my development as someone who is interested in writing my senior thesis on American literature. Before taking this class I knew that his works were significant with regards to the Civil Rights Movement. However, I did not think that his writing and experiences would become so personal to me. I think I ended up enjoying his essays more than his novels, mostly due to the fact that his essays delved into his personal life and I understood him better as a person from his essays. I enjoyed the Notes of a Native Son<\/em> collection the most because the essays were written while he was abroad in France and my final essay is going to focus on this collection because I want to explore what made Baldwin\u2019s time that he spent in Europe so transformative for his journey as a writer. I want to understand why Americans are able to cultivate a better sense of identity abroad. I understand that Baldwin left America to escape racism. However, I feel as though this feeling persists throughout generations of Americans who feel the desire to escape for other reasons (apart from travel). I will be studying abroad in England next semester and wonder how the experience of living abroad will affect my identity and how I view my Americanness. I look forward to exploring these ideas further in my final essay through my analysis of Notes of a Native Son<\/em>. Now that I have read and conversed about Baldwin in an academic setting I feel prepared to read the works that we didn\u2019t have the opportunity to discuss in class on my own and in other classes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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