Exiles, outcasts, strangers
Subtitle: icons of marginalization in post World War II narratives
By: Mary Jo Muratore
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9781441156112
Subjects: Alienation (Social psychology) in literature; Strangers in literature; Exiles in literature; Victims of crimes in literature; History and criticism; Fiction; Marginality, Social, in literature; Minorities in literature
Other titles: Icons of marginalization in post World War II
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Contagions of conformity in Camus' L'étranger; title: The art of betrayal in Sábato's El túnel; title: Poeticizing vice : Genet's Querelle de brest; title: In the shadows of significance : the dissolution of character in Wright's The outsider; title: The exemplum of empathy in André Langevin's Poussière sur la ville; title: Miscast utopia : reversing the slant of history in Pineau's L'exil selon Julia; title: Habitat for inhumanity : the legacy of conquest in Naipaul's Guerrillas; title: The enemy within : the politics of self-destruction in Zongo's Le parachutage; title: The scattered self : the dislocation of identity in Wiesel's Le cinquième fils; title: Afterword; title: Appendix.