Living abroad taught Baldwin about America, not about the host country.

Evidence

I was driven to Europe, and my position is a misleading one. I’m not a European. I’m not French, though I lived in France a long time, and loved it. I learned things about France while I was there, but what I mainly learned was about my own country, my own past, and about my own language. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Begin Again, 411

Categorization

• QUESTION: How does this reframing of exile-as-elsewhere reshape how No Name in the Street is read?