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Relyea, Sarah Flemming.

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Outsider citizens: The remaking of postwar identity in Wright, Beauvoir, and Baldwin (Richard Wright, Simone de Beauvoir, James Baldwin, France).

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Title/Author:	Outsider citizens: The remaking of postwar identity in Wright, Beauvoir, and Baldwin (Richard Wright, Simone de Beauvoir, James Baldwin, France)./
Author:	Relyea, Sarah Flemming.
Description:	260 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-08, Section: A, page: 2893.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International64-08A.
Subject:	Literature, American. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3103161

Outsider citizens: The remaking of postwar identity in Wright, Beauvoir, and Baldwin (Richard Wright, Simone de Beauvoir, James Baldwin, France).
Relyea, Sarah Flemming.

Outsider citizens: The remaking of postwar identity in Wright, Beauvoir, and Baldwin (Richard Wright, Simone de Beauvoir, James Baldwin, France). - 260 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-08, Section: A, page: 2893.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--City University of New York, 2003.

This project explores the intersection between the writing of race and gender in the postwar years and a major philosophical premise of that era—that consciousness is necessarily embedded in the lived experience of the body. In the context of demands for a more democratic and inclusive modernity, the outsider emerged in various cosmopolitan guises as both representative and ambiguous, the figure of an undetermined future. I begin by examining the development of Richard Wright's construction of the black man from <italic> Native Son to The Outsider</italic>. Wright's engagement in the 1950s with modern theories of consciousness—existentialism and psychoanalysis—represented a broadening of his concern with African American modernity in <italic>Native Son</italic>. In <italic>The Outsider</italic>, he embeds the newly “free” consciousness of Cross Damon within a world structured by race, murderous acts, and police investigations and profiles. Wright depicts the adventure of an outsider whose desperate bid for a freedom in which “all is permitted” ends in entrapment. Cross runs aground on the sands of desire—the lure of power that succeeds by seducing man's deep sensual needs—and on the modern racial symbols supplanting discarded religious beliefs. I then argue that Simone de Beauvoir's analysis of gender in <italic>The Second Sex</italic> adapts environmental theories of race from Gunnar Myrdal's <italic> An American Dilemma</italic>, revising them for a philosophical investigation of whether and how women exist. Beauvoir's account of women's lived experience is, moreover, a dissenting response to psychoanalytic theories of femininity, especially Helene Deutsch's concept of “feminine masochism.” Beauvoir redefines masochism as a response to social oppression and sexual conquest, and she proposes that it conceals a desire to participate in the power of the father, God, the lover, or the authoritarian State. To the extent that women evade the Hegelian desire for recognition, it is retained in masochistic longings that undermine women's authenticity and the democratic State. My final chapter examines James Baldwin's representation of the remaking of a white American man in <italic>Giovanni's Room</italic>. Through the return of the gaze, David confronts the sexual outsider within. Baldwin responds to the triumph of American power by challenging the myths of a nation beholden to Puritan notions of sin and salvation and an unspeakable past. Love and betrayal are, he argues, problems of identity—and, finally, arbitrary choices. All three writers offer the figure of the outsider to the modern citizen as a mirror, disclosing black alienation and the mob, immanence and masochism, homophobia and betrayal.Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017657
Literature, American.

Outsider citizens: The remaking of postwar identity in Wright, Beauvoir, and Baldwin (Richard Wright, Simone de Beauvoir, James Baldwin, France).
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