Misfit Modernism : : Queer Forms of Double Exile in the Twentieth-Century Novel / / Octavio R. González.
In this book, Octavio R. González revisits the theme of alienation in the twentieth-century novel, identifying an alternative aesthetic centered on the experience of double exile, or marginalization from both majority and home culture. This misfit modernist aesthetic decenters the mainstream narrati...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Refiguring Modernism ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (248 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Preface: Queer Forms of Double Exile in the Twentieth-Century Novel
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction The Modernist Misfit: Antisocial and Intersectional
- 1. Methodology Immanent Reading
- 2. Narrating the Psychology of a "Despised Mulatto" in Larsen's Quicksand
- 3. Affective Realism Feeling Like a "Total Misfit" in Thurman's The Blacker the Berry
- 4. Narrating the Mood of the Underdog in Rhys's Quartet
- 5. Isherwood's Impersonality "Nonconformist" Queer Relationality in A Single Man
- Coda: Two Forms of Feeling Like a Misfit
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index