Andre Gide's Politics

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vii

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2. Introduction

   • Tom Conner

   Pages 1-12

3. The Meaning and Impact of André Gide’s Engagement

   • Daniel Moutote

   Pages 13-22

4. The Unrepentant Prodigal: Gide’s Classical Politics and Republican Nationalism, 1897–1909

   • M. Martin Guiney

   Pages 23-45

5. Practices of Posterity: Gide and the Cultural Politics of Sexuality

   • Michael Lucey

   Pages 47-71

6. Gide and Justice: The Immoralist in the Palace of Reason

   • John Lambeth

   Pages 73-88

7. Writing the Wrongs of French Colonial Africa: Voyage au Congo and Le Retour du Tchad

   • Walter Putnam

   Pages 89-110

8. Sightseeing: Voyage au Congo and the Ethnographic Spectacle

   • Jeffrey Geiger

   Pages 111-130

9. Left-Wing Intellectuals in the entre-deux-guerres

   • Jean-François Sirinelli

   Pages 131-138

10. Having Congress: The Shame of the Thirties

    • Roger Shattuck

    Pages 139-160

11. Gide and Soviet Communism

    • Paul Hollander

    Pages 161-178

12. Unfinished Business: André Gide’s Geneviève and the Constraints of Socialist Realism

    • Peter F. DeDomenico

    Pages 179-203

13. Gide and the Feminist Voice

    • Naomi Segal

    Pages 205-228

14. Gide under Siege: Domestic Conflict and Political Allegory in the World War II Journal

    • Jocelyn Van Tuyl

    Pages 229-261

15. Theseus Revisited: Commitment through Myth

    • Pamela A. Genova

    Pages 263-283

16. Back Matter

    Pages 284-296

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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.

Tom Conner is Associate Professor of French at St. Norbert College in De Pere, Wisconsin.

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