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Misfit modernism : queer forms of double exile in the twentieth-century novel /

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"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...

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Main Author: González, Octavio R. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2020]
Series:Refiguring modernism.
Subjects:
Alienation (Social psychology) in literature.
English fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Modernism (Literature)
Queer theory.
American fiction.
English fiction.
1900-1999
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of 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.