American Modernism's Expatriate Scene: The Labour of Translation

by Daniel Katz

Book Overview

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