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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

González, Octavio R., author.

Series:

Refiguring modernism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Alienation (Social psychology) in literature.

English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

American fiction.

Modernism (Literature).

Queer theory.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xvii, 223 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2020]

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.

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.

Notes:

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

ISBN:

9780271087139

0271087137

OCLC:

1141132718