Description:
This volume addresses the notion of wandering in English-speaking literary modernism. Focusing on the interwar period, it encompasses the material aspects of wandering lifestyles, their social and cultural conceptualizations, from tourism to exile, and the politics of localization and displacement, from a diverse range of scholarly and theoretical perspectives.
Brief description:
Yasna Bozhkova is Associate Professor of American Literature at Université Paris Nanterre. Her research focuses on intertextual, intermedial and intercultural poetics from transatlantic modernism to the present. Her first monograph, titled Between Worlds: Mina Loy's Aesthetic Itineraries, was published in 2022 by Clemson University Press. She is also the co-editor of several special issues, including "African American Voices from the Harlem Renaissance to the Present: Establishing/Abolishing Authority" (French Review of American Studies) and "'The Contour of an Electric Spirit' Revisiting Mina Loy in the 21st Century" (Feminist Modernist Studies). She has published articles and book chapters on modernist and contemporary poetry and fiction, as well as avant-garde experimentation across the arts. She is a board member of the Société d'études modernistes and of the MSA.