Title: Bad Faith Characters and the Quest for Authenticity: On the Existentialist Dimension in Native Son
Abstract:The central task of this paper is to analyze Native son through the lens of Sartre's existential philosophy. The interpretation of the various characters according to three patterns of bad faith, the ...The central task of this paper is to analyze Native son through the lens of Sartre's existential philosophy. The interpretation of the various characters according to three patterns of bad faith, the analysis of Bigger's quest for authenticity as an antithesis of bad faith are expected to provide new insights into the existential sources of Wright's fiction and researches into Sartre's existential philosophy.Read More
Publication Year: 2009
Publication Date: 2009-03-01
Language: en
Type: article
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