Writing Back: American Expatriates' Narratives of Return (Rethinking Theory)

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Explore the shock of the new—and the familiar—experienced by well-known expatriate writers when they returned to the United States.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.
Copyright:
2012

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Book Size:
304 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781421407821
Related ISBNs:
9781421407401
Publisher:
Johns Hopkins University Press
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Johns Hopkins University Press
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No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
History, Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Social Studies, Language Arts
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