This is a study on the premise that expatriation in American modernism is less a flight from the homeland than a dialectical return to it. 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 generalised 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.

About the Author
Daniel Katz is Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick.


Book Information
ISBN 9780748691210
Author Daniel Katz
Format Paperback
Page Count 198
Imprint Edinburgh University Press
Publisher Edinburgh University Press
Weight(grams) 321g