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Palgrave MacMillan Modernism and Mobility The Passport and Cosmopolitan Experience 2014 Edition by B. Chalk
Tracing the changing conceptions of nationality in the work of traveling writers such as D.H. Lawrence, Gertrude Stein, and Claude McKay, Modernism and Mobility argues that the passport system is an indispensable segue into discussions of literary modernism. Table of contents :- Introduction: Modernism's Passport Problems 1. "I Am Not England": D.H. Lawrence, National Identity and Aboriginality 2. An Independent Bureaucrat: Classification and Nationality in Stein's Autobiographies 3. "Sensible of Being Etrangers ": Plots and Identity Papers in Banjo 4. A "Mania for Classification": Jean Rhys's Interwar Fiction 5. Itinerancy and Identity Confusion in The Berlin Stories Conclusion: W.H. Auden, "Old Passports," and New Borders