Exiles, Outcasts, Strangers

ISBN-13: 9781441156112 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 208 str.

Mary Jo Muratore

Opis

Exiles, Outcasts, Strangers explores how nine different "outsider" authors treat the theme of alienation in one of their major works. All the novels under review were written in a limited time span (1942 to 1987, approximately 50 years), and all are structured around a hero or heroine who remains culturally, ethically or aesthetically distant from his/her narrative counterparts. Works discussed: Albert Camus' L'Etranger; Richard Wright's The Outsider; Andre Langevin's Poussiere sur la ville; Ernesto Sabato's El tunel; V.S. Naipaul's Guerrillas; Elie Wiesel's Le Cinquieme fils; Norbert Zongo's Le Parachutage; Gisele Pineau's L'Exil selon Julia, and Jean Genet's Querelle de Brest.

Spis treści

Introduction 1. Contagions of Conformity in Camus' L'Étranger 2. The Art of Betrayal in Sábato's El túnel 3. Poeticizing Vice: Genet's Querelle de Brest 4. In the Shadows of Significance: The Dissolution of Character in Wright's The Outsider 5. The Exemplum of Empathy in André Langevin's Poussière sur la ville 6. Miscast Utopia: Reversing the Slant of History in Pineau's L'Exil selon Julia 7. Habitat for Inhumanity: The Legacy of Conquest in Naipaul's Guerillas 8. The Enemy Within: The Politics of Self-Destruction in Zongo's Le Parachutage 9. The Scattered Self: The Dislocation of identity in Wiesel's Le Cinquième Fils Afterword Appendix Bibliography