Outsider citizens
Subtitle: the remaking of postwar identity in Wright, Beauvoir, and Baldwin
By: Sarah Relyea.
Series: Literary criticism and cultural theory
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
Subjects: Wright, Richard, 1908-1960 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Baldwin, James, 1924- -- Criticism and interpretation.; Beauvoir, Simone de, 1908-; Beauvoir, Simone de, 1908- -- Influence.; World War, 1939-1945 -- United States -- Literature and the war.; African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.; Identity (Psychology) in literature.; Marginality, Social, in literature.; African Americans in literature.; Sex role in literature.; Race in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-198) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : postwar theories of identity; title: Internalizing the white gaze: the problem of violence in Native son; title: Sociology and philosophy : an American dilemma and the making of The second sex; title: The vanguard of modernity : Richard Wright's The outsider; title: Sexual dialogics : psychoanalysis and The second sex; title: Identity undone : James Baldwin and the destiny of America.