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Author González, Octavio R., author.

Title Misfit modernism [electronic resource] : queer forms of double exile in the twentieth-century novel / Octavio R. González.

Publication Info. University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2020]
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Description 1 online resource.
Series Refiguring modernism
Refiguring modernism.
Contents Intro -- COVER Front -- Copyright Page -- Table of CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction -- Notes to Introduction -- Chapter 1: Methodology -- Notes to Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2: Narrating thePsychology of a" Despised Mulatto" in Larsen's Quicksand -- Notes to Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3: Affective Realism -- Notes to Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4: Narrating the Mood of the Underdog in Rhys's Quartet -- Notes to Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5: Isherwood's Impersonality -- Notes to Chapter 5 -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
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.
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Subject Alienation (Social psychology) in literature.
English fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Modernism (Literature)
Queer theory.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Gay & Lesbian
Alienation (Social psychology) in literature
American fiction
English fiction
Modernism (Literature)
Queer theory
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: 9780271087139 0271087137 (DLC) 2020016973 (OCoLC)1141132718
ISBN 9780271087399 (electronic bk.)
0271087390 (electronic bk.)
9780271087139
0271087137