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Nation, Self, And Foreign Space: Exploring The Expatriation Of James Baldwin, Henry James, And Edith Wharton, Emily Monroe Weisman
Nation, Self, And Foreign Space: Exploring The Expatriation Of James Baldwin, Henry James, And Edith Wharton, Emily Monroe Weisman
Senior Projects Spring 2018
This project explores the expatriation of James Baldwin, Henry James, and Edith Wharton. Through their fiction and personal journeys abroad, Baldwin, James and Wharton seek to answer the question of what it means to be an American. This trio of writers chose to leave America at some point or another in order to find both literary and personal freedom from the confinement that was brought upon them by the space of America.
Baldwin, James, and Wharton explore the effects of race, class, and gender on an individual in the space of America versus the space of Europe. The novels that …