Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: writing back: American expatriates' narratives of return
  • Framing the un-scene/writing the wrongs : Henry James's text of America
  • An intellectual is being beaten : the escape and return of Harold E. Stearns
  • Wo Mama war, soll Dada werden : Malcolm Cowley's odyssey of legitimation
  • Everybody's autobiography : the remaking of an American
  • Postcript.