{"product_id":"writing-back-american-expatriates-narratives-of-return-hardcover","title":"Writing Back: American Expatriates' Narratives of Return - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSusan Winnett\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExplore the shock of the new--and the familiar--experienced by well-known expatriate writers when they returned to the United States.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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. \u003ci\u003eWriting Back\u003c\/i\u003e focuses on the memoirs of modernist writers and intellectuals who struggled with their return to America after years of living abroad.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSusan 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWriting Back\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSusan Winnett\u003c\/b\u003e is University Professor of American Studies at the Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf (Germany). She is the author of \u003ci\u003eTerrible Sociability: The Text of Manners in Laclos, Goethe, and James\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 9.1 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 01, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53025246314803,"sku":"9781421407401","price":119.77,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/ZtpiyKQFQN9781421407401.webp?v=1770231720","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/writing-back-american-expatriates-narratives-of-return-hardcover","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}