Writing Back: American Expatriates' Narratives of Return

Explore the shock of the new—and the familiar—experienced by well-known expatriate writers when they returned to the United States.

The 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. Writing Back focuses on the memoirs of modernist writers and intellectuals who struggled with their return to America after years of living abroad.

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