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Misfit Modernism: Queer Forms of Double Exile in the Twentieth-Century Novel (Refiguring Modernism)
In this book, Octavio R. Gonzlezrevisits the theme of alienation in the twentieth-century novel, identifying an alternative aesthetic centered on the experience of double exile, or marginalization from both majority and home culture. This misfit modernist aesthetic decenters the mainstream narrative of modernismwhich explores alienation from a universal and existential perspectiveby showing how a group of authors leveraged modernist narrative to explore minoritarian experiences of cultural nonbelonging. Read more