Misfit Modernism: Queer Forms of Double Exile in the Twentieth-Century Novel

by Octavio R. González

In this book, Octavio R. Gonz lezrevisits the theme of alienation in the twentieth-century novel, identifying an alternative aesthetic centered on the experience of double exile, or marginalization from both majority and home culture. This misfit modernist aesthetic decenters the mainstream narrative of modernism--which explores alienation from a universal and existential perspective--by showing how a group of authors leveraged modernist...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271087137
• ISBN13: 9780271087139
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.0" x 9.8"