Susan Sontag : the making of an icon / Carl Rollyson and Lisa Paddock.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rollyson, Carl E. (Carl Edmund), author.

Paddock, Lisa Olson, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sontag, Susan, 1933-2004.

Sontag, Susan.

Authors, American--20th century--Biography.

Authors, American.

Women and literature--United States--History--20th century.

Women and literature.

United States.

History.

Genre:

Biographies.

History.

Physical Description:

xi, 372 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

Revised and updated edition.

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2016.

Contents:

Chapter 1 My Desert Childhood (1933-45) 3

Chapter 2 A World Elsewhere (1945-48) 16

Chapter 3 Towards a Better Life (1949-53) 26

Chapter 4 The Life and the Project (1953-57) 43

Chapter 5 Quest (1957-58) 52

Chapter 6 Making It (1958-62) 63

Chapter 7 Made (1962-63) 73

Chapter 8 Supremacy (1963-64) 86

Chapter 9 Fame (1965-66) 95

Chapter 10 Peter and Paul (1965-67) 111

Chapter 11 Neo-Radicalism (1967-69) 126

Chapter 12 Styles of Radical Will (1968-71) 137

Chapter 13 Ms. Sontag (1971-73) 153

Chapter 14 Promised Lands (1973-74) 164

Chapter 15 "Old Complaints Revisited" (1975) 170

Chapter 16 Becoming a Little Posthumous (1975-77) 176

Chapter 17 Recovery (1976-77) 181

Chapter 18 The Salonistes (1977-85) 189

Chapter 19 I, etcetera (1978-79) 210

Chapter 20 A "Wandering Jew (1980) 217

Chapter 21 Susan the Apostate (1982) 223

Chapter 22 Retrospection and Retaliation (1982-83) 230

Chapter 23 President Sontag (1984-89) 236

Chapter 24 Pitching Susan Sontag (1986-89) 254

Chapter 25 "The Way We Live Now" (1987-92) 261

Chapter 26 Vie Volcano Lover (1990-92) 271

Chapter 27 Sarajevo (1993-95) 279

Chapter 28 The End and the Beginning (1991-99) 288

Chapter 29 Recovery and Rejection (1999-2003) 300

Chapter 30 Finis (2004) 310.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781628462371

162846237X

OCLC:

945434055