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

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

Octavio R. González, "Misfit Modernism: Queer Forms of Double Exile in the Twentieth-Century Novel "
English | ISBN: 0271087145 | 2021 | 248 pages | PDF | 3 MB

In this book, Octavio R. Gonzálezrevisits 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 narrative to explore minoritarian experiences of cultural nonbelonging.
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