Misfit Modernism by Octavio Gonzlez

Misfit Modernism by Octavio Gonzlez

Revisits the theme of alienation in modernist literature, finding an alternative aesthetic centered on the experience of double exile. Explores examples drawn from the cultural groupings of the New Negro movement, Parisian expatriates in the 1920s, and the queer expatriate scene in Los Angeles before Stonewall.

“González’s work to break down the divide between queer-of-color critique and antisocial queer approaches is well overdue and should make further antisocial queer-of-color analyses availableIt’s also clear that turning to a category like that of the misfit could relieve queerness of the impossible demand to be about all forms of marginality.”

—Ben Nichols American Literary History

“Misfit Modernism tends to the ‘misfit’ structures of feeling of intersectional modernist authors before the full efflorescence of identity politics. In the process, it puts antisociality, negative affect, and arrested agency on the map for queer of color critique. In a series of brilliant and sensitive ‘immanent readings,’ González demonstrates how such negative affects respond to the dilemma of the misfit’s ‘double exile’—a sense of nonconformity and unbelonging with dominant and minoritarian cultures alike.”

—Kadji Amin, author of Disturbing Attachments: Genet, Modern Pederasty, and Queer History

“This wide-ranging book celebrating some of modernism’s most perplexing and pleasurable misfits stages an original conversation between the new modernist studies, queer-of-color critique, theories of intersectionality, and narratology. It pushes the growing field of queer modernist studies in new and exciting directions.”

—Benjamin Bateman, author of The Modernist Art of Queer Survival

Octavio R. González is Assistant Professor of English at Wellesley College.

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ISBN 13	9780271087139
ISBN 10	0271087137
Title	Misfit Modernism
Author	Octavio Gonzlez
Series	Refiguring Modernism
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Pennsylvania State University Press
Year published	2020-08-31
Number of pages	248
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.