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Writing Back: American Expatriates´ Narratives of Return
Susan Winnett
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Description for Writing Back: American Expatriates´ Narratives of Return
Hardback. 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. Series: Rethinking Theory. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 544.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Series
Rethinking Theory
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421407401
SKU
V9781421407401
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About Susan Winnett
Susan Winnett is University Professor of American Studies at the Heinrich-Heine-Universitat Dusseldorf (Germany). She is the author of Terrible Sociability: The Text of Manners in Laclos, Goethe, and James.
Reviews for Writing Back: American Expatriates´ Narratives of Return
Even scholars familiar with these works will find Winnett's reading fresh, erudite, and insightful. Choice Winnett's tightly-argued chapters, and the sense of intellectual exchange between them, mark this as an important book in the literary history of transatlantic migration. Forum for Modern Language Studies