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Author:

Relyea, Sarah, 1958-

Title:

Outsider citizens : the remaking of postwar identity in Wright, Beauvoir, and Baldwin / Sarah Relyea.

Publisher:

Routledge,

Copyright Date:

2006

Description:

vii, 204 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Wright, Richard,--1908-1960--Criticism and interpretation.
World War, 1939-1945--United States--Literature and the war.
Baldwin, James,--1924---Criticism and interpretation.
African Americans--Intellectual life--20th century.
Beauvoir, Simone de,--1908-1986.--Deuxi©·me sexe.--English
Beauvoir, Simone de,--1908-1986--Influence.
Identity (Psychology) in literature
Marginality, Social, in literature
African Americans in literature.
Sex role in literature
Race in literature

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-198) and index.

Contents:

Introduction : postwar theories of identity -- Internalizing the white gaze: the problem of violence in Native son -- Sociology and philosophy : an American dilemma and the making of The second sex -- The vanguard of modernity : Richard Wright's The outsider -- Sexual dialogics : psychoanalysis and The second sex -- Identity undone : James Baldwin and the destiny of America.

Series:

Literary criticism and cultural theory

ISBN:

9780415975278
0415975271 (acid-free paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)61453922

LCCN:

2005024532

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)