My initial focus is on how identity is created in 20th Century Anglophone (mainly American) writing (fiction, poetry, drama, and even a bit of non-fiction). I'm beginning with some work on Nabokov, Tennessee Williams, Gwendolyn Brooks, H. D., and Philip Roth. I'm going to work on trying to tie these disparate authors together by focusing on how they create and undermine character identity -- and I'm going to try to remember that they are writing about characters (and not themselves), even when those characters are based on real people.
Wish me luck.
