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American Modernism's Expatriate Scene - The Labour of Translation (Paperback)
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American Modernism's Expatriate Scene - The Labour of Translation (Paperback)
Series: Edinburgh Studies in Transatlantic Literatures
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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 mystification and 'nativist' obsessions with the purity
of the 'mother tongue.' At the same time, cosmopolitanism,
translation, and multilingualism become often eroticised tropes of
violation of this model, and in consequence, simultaneously courted
and abhorred, in a movement which, if crystallised in expatriate
modernism, continued to make its presence felt beyond.
Beginning with the late work of Henry James, this book goes on to
examine at length Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein, to conclude with
the uncanny regionalism of mid-century San Francisco Renaissance
poet Jack Spicer, and the deterritorialised aesthetic of Spicer's
peer, John Ashbery. Through an emphasis on modernism as a space of
generalized interference, the practice and trope of translation
emerges as central to all of the writers concerned, while the book
remains in constant dialogue with key recent works on
transnationalism, transatlanticism, and modernism.
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