RACIST EXPATRIATE?
RACIST EXPATRIATE?

HENRY MILLER’S NATIONAL STEREOTYPES IN TROPIC OF CAPRICORN AND THE AIR-CONDITIONED NIGHTMARE

Summary/Abstract: This paper argues that the antisemitism and racism found in the writing of Henry Miller relates to personal issues of self-identification. To understand his prejudices, the impact of New York City on Miller’s perception of nationality and ethnicity before, during, and after his expatriation from the United States needs to be studied. Through the application of imagological theories, the textual function of his stereotypes is explained and placed in a larger, temporal context which reveals both the writer’s struggle to detach himself from his German-American origins and his desire to embrace an otherness that he, for instance, finds in France.

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