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Quest for identity in Richard Wright's the outsider: an existentialist approach.(Critical essay)
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The Western Journal of Black Studies
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March 22, 2006
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The paper critically examines Richard Wright's The Outsider as an existentialist novel. Using different critical approaches, it probes the personality of Cross Damon not only as a black man in quest for identity but also as an existential hero. Jean Paul Sartre's philosophy of existentialism is used as the basis of exploration of the predicament on Cross Damon on his existential journey. References are also made of the profound influence of Sartre's existentialist theory on major writers including Richard Wright. Specifically, a parallel is drawn between Albert Camus's The Outsider and Wright's own novel in which similarities in characterization and theme are drawn. The analysis of the ...
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