Octavio R. Gonzalez is Assistant Professor of English at Wellesley College.
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"Misfit Modernism tends to the 'misfit' structures of feeling of intersectional modernist authors before the full efflorescence of identity politics. In the process, it puts antisociality, negative affect, and arrested agency on the map for queer of color critique. In a series of brilliant and sensitive 'immanent readings,' Gonzalez demonstrates how such negative affects respond to the dilemma of the misfit's 'double exile'-a sense of nonconformity and unbelonging with dominant and minoritarian cultures alike." -Kadji Amin, author of Disturbing Attachments: Genet, Modern Pederasty, and Queer History "This wide-ranging book celebrating some of modernism's most perplexing and pleasurable misfits stages an original conversation between the new modernist studies, queer-of-color critique, theories of intersectionality, and narratology. It pushes the growing field of queer modernist studies in new and exciting directions." -Benjamin Bateman, author of The Modernist Art of Queer Survival