Format:
xvii, 223 Seiten ;
,
25 cm.
ISBN:
978-0-271-08713-9
Series Statement:
Refiguring modernism
Content:
"Revisits the theme of alienation in modernist literature, finding an alternative aesthetic centered on the experience of double exile. Explores examples drawn from the cultural groupings of the New Negro movement, Parisian expatriates in the 1920s, and the queer expatriate scene in Los Angeles before Stonewall"--
Note:
Introduction : the modern misfit, antisocial and intersectional -- Methodology : immanent reading -- Narrating the psychology of a "despised mulatto" in Larsen's Quicksand -- Affective realism : feeling like a "total misfit" in Thurman's The blacker the berry -- Narrating the mood of the underdog in Rhys's Quartet -- Isherwood's impersonality : "nonconformist" queer relationality in A single man -- Coda : two forms of feeling like a misfit
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 978-0-271-08739-9
Language:
English
Subjects:
American Studies
Keywords:
Englisch
;
Roman
;
Entfremdung
;
Exil
;
Queer-Theorie
;
Criticism, interpretation, etc
URL:
http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&local_base=BVB01&doc_number=032376612&sequence=000001&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA