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• Title:Misfit modernism : queer forms of double exile in the twentieth-century novel / Octavio R. González.
  
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• Author/Creator:González, Octavio R., author.
  
• Published/Created:University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2020]
  ©2020
  

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  • Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: PR830.A42 G66 2020
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:c.1 On loan - Due on 04-30-2024
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Alienation (Social psychology) in literature.
  English fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
  American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
  Modernism (Literature)
  Queer theory.
  
• Description:xvii, 223 pages ; 25 cm
  
• Series:Refiguring modernism ; 32.
  
• 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.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-216) and index.
  
• ISBN:9780271087139 (hardcover)
  0271087137 (hardcover)
  9780271087146 (paperback)
  0271087145 (paperback)
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: 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.