Radical Fictions and the Novels of Norman Mailer

Nigel Leigh. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. 198-203. Front Matter....Pages i-viii The Dilemma of Power in The Naked and the Dead....Pages 1-29 Marxisms on Trial:Barbary Shore....Pages 30-54 A Flight from Ideology and Transits to Narcissus in The Deer Park....Pages 55-83 The Radical Geography of Self and Society in An American Dream....Pages 84-118 Saving the Root: Old and New Circuits in the Electroworld of Why Are We in Vietnam?....Pages 119-148 Making One′s Way Back to Life in Ancient Evenings....Pages 149-180 Back Matter....Pages 181-206 The author provides an examination of what Mailer found out about power, outlining the important political classic "The Naked and the Dead" through the mythopoeic epic "Ancient Evenings".