Writing back
Subtitle: American expatriates and narratives of return
By: Susan Winnett
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
ISBN-13: 9781421407401; 9781421407821
Subjects: Autobiography; Expatriate authors; American prose literature; History and criticism; Criticism and interpretation; Psychology; In literature; Identity (Psychology) in literature
Other titles: American expatriates and narratives of return
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: writing back: American expatriates' narratives of return; title: Framing the un-scene/writing the wrongs : Henry James's text of America; title: An intellectual is being beaten : the escape and return of Harold E. Stearns; title: Wo Mama war, soll Dada werden : Malcolm Cowley's odyssey of legitimation; title: Everybody's autobiography : the remaking of an American; title: Postcript.