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

Exiles, Outcasts, Strangers: Icons of Marginalization in Post World War II Narrative
ISBN-10
1441156119
ISBN-13
9781441156112
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
209
Language
English
Published
2011-08-25
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Author
Mary Jo Muratore

Description

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; 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.

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