Title: Misfit Modernism
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"--
Subjects: English literature, Alienation (Social psychology) in literature, English fiction, History and criticism, American fiction, Modernism (Literature), Queer theory