Title Writing back : American expatriates and narratives of return / Susan Winnett

Published Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013

Click on the following:
ProQuest Ebook Central
EBSCO eBooks

Copies

Description 1 online resource (304 pages) Series Rethinking theory (Baltimore, Md.) Rethinking theory (Baltimore, Md.) Contents Introduction: writing back: American expatriates' narratives of return -- Framing the un-scene/writing the wrongs : Henry James's text of America -- An intellectual is being beaten : the escape and return of Harold E. Stearns -- Wo Mama war, soll Dada werden : Malcolm Cowley's odyssey of legitimation -- Everybody's autobiography : the remaking of an American -- Postcript Summary "The migration of American artists and intellectuals to Europe in the early twentieth century has been amply documented and studied, but few scholars have examined the aftermath of their return home. Writing Back focuses on the memoirs of modernist writers and intellectuals who struggled with their return to America after years of living abroad. Susan Winnett establishes repatriation as related to but significantly different from travel and exile. She engages in close readings of several writers-in-exile, including Henry James, Harold Stearns, Malcolm Cowley, and Gertrude Stein. Writing Back examines how repatriation unsettles the self-construction of the "returning absentee" by challenging the fictions of national and cultural identity with which the writer has experimented during the time abroad. As both Americans and expatriates, these writers gained a unique perspective on American culture, particularly in terms of gender roles, national identity, artistic self-conception, mobility, and global culture."--Project Muse Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946 -- Criticism and interpretation Cowley, Malcolm, 1898-1989 -- Criticism and interpretation Stearns, Harold, 1891-1943 -- Criticism and interpretation James, Henry, 1843-1916 -- Criticism and interpretation SUBJECT Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946 -- Criticism and interpretation Cowley, Malcolm, 1898-1989 -- Criticism and interpretation Stearns, Harold, 1891-1943 -- Criticism and interpretation James, Henry, 1843-1916 -- Criticism and interpretation Cowley, Malcolm, 1898-1989 fast James, Henry, 1843-1916 fast Stearns, Harold, 1891-1943 fast Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946 fast Subject Identity (Psychology) in literature. Expatriate authors -- Psychology Autobiography. American prose literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism Autobiographies as Topic autobiography (genre) LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. American prose literature Autobiography Identity (Psychology) in literature Literature SUBJECT Europe -- In literature. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045784 United States -- In literature Subject Europe United States Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book LC no. 2012008909 ISBN 9781421407821 1421407825

  Permalink