American Modernism's Expatriate Scene: The Labour of Translation
(Part of the Edinburgh Critical Studies in Transatlantic Literatures Series)
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This study takes as its point of departure an essential premise: that the widespread phenomenon of expatriation in American modernism is less a flight from the homeland than a dialectical return to it, but one which renders uncanny all tropes of familiarity and immediacy which 'fatherlands' and 'mother tongues' are traditionally seen as providing. In this framework, similarly totalising notions of cultural authenticity are seen to govern both exoticist...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0748625267
ISBN13:9780748625260
Release Date:August 2007
Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
Length:208 Pages
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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