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Outsider Citizens The Remaking of Postwar Identity in Wright, Beauvoir, and Baldwin
By Sarah Relyea
Copyright 2006
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Outsider Citizens examines a foundational moment in the writing of race, gender, and sexuality––the decade after 1945, when Richard Wright, Simone de Beauvoir, and others sought to adapt existentialism and psychoanalysis to the representation of newly emerging public identities. Relyea offers the first book-length study bringing together Wright and Beauvoir to reveal their common sources and... Read more
Introduction Chapter 1 Internalizing the White Gaze: The Problem of Revolt in Native SonChapter 2 The Sociology of Race and the Making of The Second SexChapter 3 The Vanguard of Modernity: Richard Wright's The OutsiderChapter 4 Sexual Dialogics: Hegelian and Psychoanalytic Discourses in The Second SexChapter 5 Identity Undone: James Bladwin and the Destiny of America
Biography
Sarah Relyea is an Assistant Professor of English at National Central University, Taiwan. She holds a B.A. from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in English from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). Her forthcoming publications include The Vanguard of Modernity: Richard Wright's The Outsider, in Texas Studies in Literature and Language, and Psychoanalysis and The Second Sex: Simone de Beauvoir's Response to Helene Deutsch, in the Acts of the conference Simone de Beauvoir ritorna in Italia.
