Transatlantic Aliens: Modernism, Exile, and Culture in Midcentury America

by Will Norman

How did the experience of transatlantic displacement shape literature, art, and thought in midcentury America?

The intellectual migration to the United States of European writers, intellectuals, and artists in the 1930s and 1940s has often been narrowly seen as a clash between a rarefied European modernist sensibility and a debased American mass culture. In Transatlantic Aliens, Will Norman reorients our understanding of midcentury...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421420945
• ISBN13: 9781421420943
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher