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Misfit modernism : queer forms of double exile in the twentieth-century novel
Title
Misfit modernism : queer forms of double exile in the twentieth-century novel / Octavio R. González.
ISBN
9780271087139
0271087137
Publication
University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2020]
Physical Description
xvii, 223 pages ; 25 cm.
Summary
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
December 02, 2020
Series
Refiguring modernism
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [195]-216) and index.
Contents
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.
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