Exiles, Outcasts, Strangers Icons of Marginalization in Post World War II Narrative

by Muratore, Mary Jo

• ISBN13: 9781441156112
• ISBN10: 1441156119
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-08-25
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

The project 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 under review include: Albert Camus' L'Etranger; Richard Wright's The Outsider; André Langevin's Poussière sur la ville; Ernesto Sábato's El túnel; V.S. Naipaul's Guerrillas; Elie Wiesel's, Le Cinquième fils; Norbert Zongo's Le Parachutage; Gisèle Pineau's L'Exil selon Julia, and Jean Genet's Querelle de Brest.

Table of Contents

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 Outsider5. The Exemplum of Empathy in AndrÉ Langevin's Poussière sur la ville6. Miscast Utopia: Reversing the Slant of History in Pineau's L'Exil selon Julia7. Habitat for Inhumanity: The Legacy of Conquest in Naipaul's Guerillas8. The Enemy Within: The Politics of Self-Destruction in Zongo's Le Parachutage9. The Scattered Self: The Dislocation of identity in Wiesel's Le Cinquième FilsAfterwordAppendix Bibliography