Writing Back

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  • ISBN 9781421407401
  • Weight: 544g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 09 Feb 2013
  • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Hardback
  • Language: English
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The migration of American artists and intellectuals to Europe in the early twentieth century has been amply documented and studied, but few scholars have examined the aftermath of their return home. "Writing Back" focuses on the memoirs of modernist writers and intellectuals who struggled with their return to America after years of living abroad. Susan Winnett establishes repatriation as related to but significantly different from travel and exile. She engages in close readings of several writers-in-exile, including Henry James, Harold Stearns, Malcolm Cowley, and Gertrude Stein. "Writing Back" examines how repatriation unsettles the self-construction of the "returning absentee" by challenging the fictions of national and cultural identity with which the writer has experimented during the time abroad. As both Americans and expatriates, these writers gained a unique perspective on American culture, particularly in terms of gender roles, national identity, artistic self-conception, mobility, and global culture.
Susan Winnett is University Professor of American Studies at the Heinrich-Heine-Universitat Dusseldorf (Germany). She is the author of Terrible Sociability: The Text of Manners in Laclos, Goethe, and James.