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Informationen zum Autor Edited by Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera and Vamsi K. Koneru Klappentext This collection brings together new perspectives on the novels, memoirs, poetry, and journalism concerning Paris written by Americans. By examining the implications of foreignness as a creative device, this volume offer an innovative approach to understanding the role of the French capital in American Literatures, one that would be compelling for the literary scholar and the avid reader. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction On Distance as a Literary Resource, Jeffrey Herlihy and Vamsi K. Koneru Chapter 1 Emerson in Paris, C.R. Resetarits Chapter 2 Je l'ai dans mon sang!-Paris in Edith Wharton's Madame de Treymes, Marta Miquel-Baldellou Chapter 3Forget Paris: Sherwood Anderson and the American Expatriate Grotesque, Carl Miller Chapter 4 From Dada to Nada: The Dadaist Influence on Hemingway's Works Between 1922-1926, Jonathan Austad Chapter 5 The Nightinghouls of Paris: Robert McAlmon's Queer Paternalism and The Twilight of the Expatriate Movement, Chase Dimock Chapter 6 Miller's Henry and Henry's Paris, Katy Masuga Chapter 7Chicago Adventures in Paris: Foreignness and Saul Bellow's Creative Opposition, Matthew Crowe Chapter 8 The Road to Paris in Tim O'Brien's Going After Cacciato, Nanette Norris Chapter 9"What Keeps you here?": Paris, Language, and Exile in The Book of Salt by Monique Truong, Daniela Fargione Epilogue: The Futures of American Paris, Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera and Vamsi K. Koneru IndexNotes on Contributors
