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Author:

González, Octavio R., author.

Title:

Misfit modernism : queer forms of double exile in the twentieth-century novel / Octavio R. González.

Publisher:

The Pennsylvania State University Press,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

xvii, 223 pages ; 25 cm

Subject:

1900-1999
Alienation (Social psychology) in literature.
English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
Modernism (Literature)
Queer theory.
Alienation (Social psychology) in literature.
American fiction.
English fiction.
Modernism (Literature)
Queer theory.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-216) and index.

Contents:

Introduction : the modern misfit, antisocial and intersectional -- Methodology : immanent reading -- Narrating the psychology of a "despised mulatto" in Larsen's Quicksand -- Affective realism : feeling like a "total misfit" in Thurman's The blacker the berry -- Narrating the mood of the underdog in Rhys's Quartet -- Isherwood's impersonality : "nonconformist" queer relationality in A single man -- Coda : two forms of feeling like a misfit.

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.

Series:

Refiguring modernism ; 32

ISBN:

0271087137
9780271087139

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1141132718

LCCN:

2020016973

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)