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James Baldwin’s Another Country (1962) offers a unique stance of how identity formation occurs as queer individuals interact with heteronormative spaces they inhabit. In this Honor’s Thesis, I am to detail how Baldwin’s novel bridges the interdisciplinary gap between Literature and Queer Theory when concerned with queer identity. (Heteronormative culture aims to suppress queer ideology to maintain its own superiority, ultimately exhibiting how spaces created with a strict alliance to norms positions a barrier that queer individuals must encounter and resist, functioning as the entrance of queer space. While interacting with the boundaries of normative culture and space, the implications of how queer space functions not only within the confines of a novel but also within social categorizations complicates the notion of how queerness functions to subvert ordinariness. Another Country positions individuals struggling to create unique individualized spaces, in which normative culture can be challenged and forced to exhibit an elasticity that is contradictory to its assumed rigidity. The Mutability of Space and Identity To accept one’s queerness is to accept that heteronormative culture has rejected the notion of one’s existence. Queer people have been relegated to the sidelines of a normative culture that insists on its own superiority, on an ideology that places itself in a unique position—that should be sufficient and best for all, though rarely adhering to this guideline—making all opposition not only unnecessary, but grotesque. To come to terms with one’s queerness is to actively subvert and deny the influence of a superior normativity, thereby intensifying and complicating the method by which an individual’s identity is formed. With a rise in awareness of how the normative culture’s rigidity disallows challenge, the formation of one’s perception of the space they inhabit becomes labyrinthine, as the individual must navigate instilled social hierarchies in hopes of finding a place of relative safety and belonging to inhabit. Demonstrated in James Baldwin’s novel Another Country (1962), by combining the disciplines of English Literature and Queer Theory, there is a new methodology that

James Baldwin's Another Country as Representation of Queer Identity Formation in Accordance to Space