Winnett Writing Back

American Expatriates' Narratives of Return
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-1-4214-0782-1
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 0 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Rethinking Theory

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Winnett, Susan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Framing the Un-Scene / Writing the Wrongs: Henry James's Text of America
2. An Intellectual Is Being Beaten: The Escape and Return of Harold E. Stearns
3. Wo Mama war, soll Dada werden: Malcolm Cowley's Odyssey of Legitimation
4. Everybody's Autobiography: The Remaking of an American
Postscript
Notes
Works Cited
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Winnett, Susan
Susan Winnett is University Professor of American Studies at the Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf (Germany). She is the author of Terrible Sociability: The Text of Manners in Laclos, Goethe, and James.