annotated bibliography for albert camus the stranger

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Chery Annotated bibliography for Albert Camus The Stranger "Zineb Sidera. " Biographical Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa. Ed. Michael R. Fischbach. Detroit: Gale Group, 2008. Gale World History In Context. Web. 8 Dec. 2010. Summary: Zineb Sideria was an immigrant woman from Britain. She is Algerian and her parents were also Algerian immigrants. She is a good artist and studies them to understand more. The veil, the gaze, and memory are some of the themes that emerge in her artistic exploration of the shifting subject positions that are part of the immigrant and exile experience, especially among Muslim and Arab women living in the west. Important quotations: Sidera was born in a suburb of Paris, France, in 1963 to Algerian immigrant parents. She later moved to Britain and trained at the Slade School of Art, the Central Saint Martin's School of Art, and the Royal College of Art. Sidera currently is based in London. Insight Into The Stranger: Mersault, the protagonists in Albert Camus The Stranger is an immigrant. Not only is this article about immigration, but she happens to be an immigrant from Algeria where Mersault is also. The more the reader learns about immigrants the better chance they have of understanding Mersault and the way he acts. "Europe Under Occupation." World War II Reference Library. Ed. Barbara C. Bigelow, et al. Vol. 1: Almanac. Detroit: UXL, 2000. 131- 156. Gale U.S. History In Context. Web. 17 Dec. 2010. Summary: This article was about how the countries in Europe were during World War II when Germany was in control. They talked about the food shortages and what people had to go through. Important Quotes: In France in 1943, a pair of shoes cost what the average person earned in six weeks. (This would be like a pair of shoes in the United States in 1999 costing about $4,000.) 1

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Annotated bibliography for Albert Camus The Stranger

"Zineb Sidera." Biographical Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa. Ed. Michael R. Fischbach. Detroit: Gale Group, 2008. Gale World History In Context. Web. 8 Dec. 2010.

Summary: Zineb Sideria was an immigrant woman from Britain. She is Algerian and her parents were also Algerian immigrants. She is a good artist and studies them to understand more. The veil, the gaze, and memory are some of the themes that emerge in her artistic exploration of the shifting subject positions that are part of the immigrant and exile experience, especially among Muslim and Arab women living in the west.

Important quotations: Sidera was born in a suburb of Paris, France, in 1963 to Algerian immigrant parents. She later moved to Britain and trained at the Slade School of Art, the Central Saint Martin's School of Art, and the Royal College of Art. Sidera currently is based in London.

Insight Into The Stranger: Mersault, the protagonists in Albert Camus The Stranger is an immigrant. Not only is this article about immigration, but she happens to be an immigrant from Algeria where Mersault is also. The more the reader learns about immigrants the better chance they have of understanding Mersault and the way he acts.

"Europe Under Occupation." World War II Reference Library. Ed. Barbara C. Bigelow, et al. Vol. 1: Almanac. Detroit: UXL, 2000. 131-156. Gale U.S. History In Context. Web. 17 Dec. 2010.

Summary: This article was about how the countries in Europe were during World War II when Germany was in control. They talked about the food shortages and what people had to go through.

Important Quotes: In France in 1943, a pair of shoes cost what the average person earned in six weeks. (This would be like a pair of shoes in the United States in 1999 costing about $4,000.)

Insight to The Stranger: The time period was at the same time as when the book was published During World War II. The Germans were in control at the time.

McGregor, Rob Roy. "Camus's 'The Silent Men' and 'The Guest': Depictions of Absurd Awareness." Studies in Short Fiction 34.3 (1997): 307. Literature Resource Center. Web. 10 Dec. 2010.

Document URLhttp://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?&id=GALE%7CA59211539&v=2.1&u=&it=r&p=LitRC&sw=w

Summary: The article deals with Kierkegaard and Camus view of despair or rather loss of hope. Camus begins to lay the foundation for his thinking. Camus uses the story to discuss the 3 parts of the theory of the absurd.

Important Quotes: The absurd is the metaphysical state of the conscious man.... the absurd is sin without God" (127-28).(2)

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Both Kierkegaard's and Camus's emphasis here, of course, is that despair is not an act but a state of being in the same way sin is not an act but a state of being. (2)

As seen in Le Mythe de Sisyphe, the change from illusion to disillusion characterizes the journey to consciousness of the absurd, the human condition. In that work, Camus lays the foundation for the centrality of freedom in his thinking. (10)

Insight into the Stranger: The narrator, Mersault, is also absurd so this essay about Camus and his thinking may help the reader to understand why he wrote the book The Stranger.

Eddins, Dwight. "Of rocks and marlin: the existentialist agon in Camus's the myth of Sisyphus and Hemingway's the old man and the sea. (Articles)." The Hemingway Review 21.1 (2001): 68+. Literature Resource Center. Web. 15 Dec. 2010.

http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?&id=GALE%7CA80805141&v=2.1&u=mlin_b_maldenhs&it=r&p=LitRC&sw=w

Summary: This article is about a guy Hemingway who discovered existentialism in practice before this other guy figured out how to do it.

Important quotes: analyzes the heroic but doomed struggle against cosmic absurdity with a physical and emotional immediacy and a starkly lucid perspective on the value problems that this struggle entails

Insight into The Stranger: this relates to the strangers because Camus theorized existentialism. Hemingway and Camus both have novels in common. They both emphasis on a human alienation from “real feelings” and “emotions” and a lack of metaphysical orientation afflicting the 20th century. Which in the novel The Stranger Mersault doesn’t show any feelings or emotions so he’s basically by himself and has no one to talk to.

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