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American Modernism´s Expatriate Scene: The Labour of Translation
Daniel Katz
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Hardback. This book attempts to address the paradoxes inherent in international modernism (a literary movement which at once strove to cross borders of nation, language, and tradition yet which at the same time often endorsed nationalist and 'racial' models of identity. Editor(s): Manning, Susan; Taylor, Andrew. Series: Edinburgh Studies in Transatlantic Literatures. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JH; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 460.
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, ... Read more
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, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
208
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Series
Edinburgh Studies in Transatlantic Literatures
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780748625260
SKU
V9780748625260
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About Daniel Katz
Daniel Katz is Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick. He is author of Saying I No More: Subjectivity and Consciousness in the Prose of Samuel Beckett (Northwestern University Press, 1999).
Reviews for American Modernism´s Expatriate Scene: The Labour of Translation
Katz [has] a firm grasp of the current state of play in the academic study of modernism and of transatlantic cultural relations in North America. Both of these are currently expanding sub-fields where adventurous new work is being done, and where familiar curricula and syllabi are undergoing revision. Katz's project will be right at home (to steal one of his ... Read more