Black Nationalism and the Problematic of Sexual Otherness in James Baldwin’s Another Country and Alice Walker’s The Color Purple

Abstract

Sameer Chopra in his critique of Black Nationalism looks at
nationalism and ‘being black’ from the eyes of the marginalised. He sees
nationalism as a homogenous entity, which fails to encompass the
aspirations and requirements of the marginalised sections of the society,
especially those which do not appear ‘normal’ to the mainstream. Only
the black man, who comes at the top of the hierarchy of the sexual and
gender differences, enjoys the benefits of Black Nationalism, and thus,
the paper critiques it as a ruptured idea with a narrow vision which is noninclusive.