Existential dilemma of identity exploration in James Baldwin's Selected novels

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The present research investigates existential dilemma of identity exploration of the African- Americans in James Baldwin's selected works.

It studies freedom, menace, and responsibility as three features characterizing Baldwin's existential dilemma of exploring identity.

Its scope of the study is Baldwin's novels.

It mainly concludes that Baldwin's works epitomize discovery of an authentic African- American identity in the writer's subjective perspective.