New perspectives on Christopher Isherwood as a searching and
transnational writer "Perhaps I had traveled too much, left my
heart in too many places," muses the narrator of Christopher
Isherwood's novel Prater Violet (1945), which he wrote in his
adopted home of Los Angeles after years of dislocation and
desperation. In Isherwood in Transit, James J.Berg and Chris
Freeman bring together diverse Isherwood scholars to understand the
challenges this writer faced as a consequence of his travel. Based
on a conference at the Huntington Library, where Isherwood's
recently opened papers are held, Isherwood in Transit considers the
writer not as an English, continental, or American writer but as a
transnational one, whose identity, politics, and beliefs were
constantly transformed by global connections and engagements
arising from journeys to Germany, Japan, China, and Argentina; his
migration to the United States; and his conversion to Vedanta
Hinduism in the 1940s. Approaching Isherwood's rootlessness and
restlessness from various perspectives, these essays show that long
after he made a new home in California and became an American
citizen, Christopher Isherwood remained unsettled, although his
wanderings became spiritual and personal rather than geographic.
Contributors: Barrie Jean Borich, DePaul U; Jamie Carr, Niagara U;
Robert L. Caserio, Penn State U, University Park; Lisa Colletta,
American U of Rome; Lois Cucullu, U of Minnesota; Jaime Harker, U
of Mississippi; Carola M. Kaplan, California State U, Pomona;
Calvin W. Keogh, Central European U, Budapest; Victor Marsh; Wendy
Moffat, Dickinson College; Xenobe Purvis; Bidhan Roy, California
State U, Los Angeles; Katharine Stevenson, U of Texas at Austin;
Edmund White.
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