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About this book
At the peak of his career, after having established himself as an accomplished writer, astute moraliste, and the foremost spokesperson of his generation for personal freedom and self-realization, Gide became aware, first, that his particular brand of bourgeois individualism was becoming increasingly irrelevant in the contemporary world and, second, that social commitment and even revolution could serve as a powerful source of inspiration and self-renewal. Over a ten-year period that began in the 1920s and ended with his public break with the Soviet Union in 1936, Gide the committed intellectual interacted with society in ways that were for him unprecedented. These essays examine the outcomes of Gide s evolving commitment to a host of controversial issues ranging from the sexual to the political, from the literary to the social.
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Social SciencesTable of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Prifatory Note
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 The Meaning and Impact of Andre Gide's Engagement
- Chapter 2 The Unrepentant Prodigal: Gide's Classical Politics and Republican Nationalism, 1897-1909
- Chapter 3 Practices of Posterity: Gide and the Cultural Politics of Sexuality
- Chapter 4 Gide and Justice: The Immoralist in the Palace of Reason
- Chapter 5 Writing the Wrongs of French Colonial Africa: Voyage au Congo and Le Retour du Tchad
- Chapter 6 Sightseeing: Voyage au Congo and the Ethnographic Spectacle
- Chapter 7 Left-Wing Intellectuals in the entre-deux-guerres
- Chapter 8 Having Congress: The Shame of the Thirties
- Chapter 9 Gide and Soviet Communism
- Chapter 10 Unfinished Business: Andre Gide's Genevieve and the Constraints of Socialist Realism
- Chapter 11 Gide and the Feminist Voice
- Chapter 12 Gide under Siege: Domestic Conflict and Political Allegory in the World War II Journal
- Chapter 13 Theseus Revisited: Commitment through Myth
- Notes on the Contributors
- Index
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