Transatlantic Aliens: Modernism, Exile, and Culture in Midcentury America

"A cogent and innovative account of the politics of literary and artistic modernism in the early years of the Cold War . . . an exceptional book." —Transatlantica

In Transatlantic Aliens, Will Norman reorients our understanding of midcentury American culture by thinking dialectically about the interfusion of aesthetic and intellectual practices across both the cultural hierarchy and the Atlantic.

Norman relays this critical narrative through a series of interlinked case studies of key...