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In this white wilderness, men and women and children move all day, carrying washing, wood, buckets of milk or water, sometimes skiing on Sunday afternoons. All week long boys and young men are to be seen shoveling snow off the rooftops, or dragging wood down from the forest in sleds.
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A Black writer visits a small Swiss village for the first time and finds himself the object of uncomfortable stares from the all-White residents, who have likely never seen a Black person before.
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"Stranger in the Village" is an essay by African-American novelist James Baldwin about his experiences in Leukerbad, Switzerland, after he nearly suffered a breakdown. The essay was originally published in Harper's Magazine, October 1953, and later in his 1955 collection, Notes of a Native Son.
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“Stranger in the Village” from Notes of a Native Son JAMES BALDWIN On the threshold of the Civil Rights Movement, author and social critic James Baldwin (1924–87) gained a widespread following in America—among whites as well as blacks— for his lacerating accounts of black suffering and American injustice. But Baldwin did more than rage.
Key words: James Baldwin, Stranger in the Village, African-American, black, white, dialectic James Baldwin seminal essay “Stranger in the Village” is one of the earliest and most discussed pieces that the African-American author wrote in and of Europe. The text was first published in Baldwin’s debut volume Notes of a Native Son (1955) and ...
Stranger in the Village. From. all available evidence no black man had ever set foot in this tiny Swiss village before I came.
