Misfit Modernism
Subtitle: Queer Forms of Double Exile in the Twentieth-Century Novel
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Published: Aug 31, 2020
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780271087139
Description: "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"--
Notes: Source title: Misfit Modernism: Queer Forms of Double Exile in the Twentieth-Century Novel (Refiguring Modernism)