Document Type
Thesis
Degree
Master of Arts (MA)
Major/Program
English
First Advisor's Name
Nathaniel Cadle
First Advisor's Committee Title
Committee Chair
Second Advisor's Name
Asher Z. Milbauer
Second Advisor's Committee Title
Committee Member
Third Advisor's Name
Michael Gillespie
Third Advisor's Committee Title
Committee Member
Keywords
Normative, Norm, Transgression, Nationalism, Subjectivity, Gender Studies, Nation-State, Disability, Exile, Modernism
Date of Defense
3-29-2019
Abstract
This thesis works to synthesize literary theory into an examination of socio- cultural and political factors of post-World War I Europe, as they appear in Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises and Djuna Barnes’ Nightwood, that led to nationalist movements in the 1930s and the current day. These concepts are divided into three sections with the first being an introduction to the formation of signifiers among the modernist writers. The second involves a differentiation of disability from gender in the expatriate community. The third an investigation of disability among the veteran expatriates. The modernist novel, whilst assisting in the creation of nation-state identities, responds to nationalist and patriarchal determination by forming characters who are outside of the norm.
Identifier
FIDC007677
Recommended Citation
Fernandez, Danny, "No Man's Land: Critical Disability and Exile in Modernist Literature" (2019). FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 4006.
https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/4006
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