Reading on the edge
Subtitle: exiles, modernities, and cultural transformation in Proust, Joyce, and Baldwin
By: Cyraina E. Johnson-Roullier.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
Subjects: Baldwin, James, 1924- -- Criticism and interpretation.; Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Joyce, James, 1882-1941 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Homosexuality and literature -- History -- 20th century.; Literature and anthropology -- History -- 20th century.; Difference (Psychology) in literature.; Modernism (Literature); Silence in literature.; Exiles in literature.; Canon (Literature)
Description: "Reading on the Edge explores the notion of multiple cultural identity and exile in the work of Marcel Proust, James Joyce, and James Baldwin. Focusing on the cultural politics of modernism through the prism of cultural theory, the book reconceives each author's work while at the same time redrawing modernism's traditionally Eurocentric disciplinary boundaries. The book, therefore, has wide implications for our understanding of modernism and the modernist canon."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-207)  and index.