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Full Description
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.
Contents
Introduction; Chapter One; Native Well Being: Henry James and the 'Cosmopolite'; Chapter Two; The Mother's Tongue: Seduction, Authenticity, and Interference in The Ambassadors; Chapter Three; Ezra Pound's American Scenes: Henry James and the Labour of Translation; Chapter Four; Pound and Translation: Ideogram and The Vulgar Tongue; Chapter Five; Gertrude Stein, Wyndham Lewis, and the American Language; Chapter Six; Jack Spicer's After Lorca: Translation as Delocalization; Chapter Seven; Homecomings: The Poet's Prose of Ashbery, Schuyler and Spicer; Bibliography.
