American Writers in Paris

This book examines the works of American writers in Paris and explores the evolving interactions between these writers and French society from the 1800s to the present. It reveals a deepened understanding and an increased acceptance of different traditions and values, and shows a considerable cultural complexity, reflecting not only a transcontinental but also a global vision in the literature of these writers in the context of the City of Light.

Chapter 1: Introduction-Literary and Cultural Contexts. - Chapter 2: The most hospitable of cities : Ralph Waldo Emerson and Paris. - Chapter 3: The American in Paris: Sources, Stereotypes, American Exceptionalism, and Henry James s
The American. - Chapter 4:
Finding Herself Elsewhere: Grace King, Madame Blanc, and
Le Petit Salon
. - Chapter 5: The Chronotope of the Temporary Autonomous Zone in Djuna Barnes' s
Nightwood. - Chapter 6:
Save Me from the Waltz: Zelda Fitzgerald and the Trauma Cultures of Expatriate Paris. - Chapter 7: Worlds beyond All Fact and Flesh: William Faulkner, Paul Cézanne, and the Phenomenology of Visual Art. - Chapter 8: Reframing
Tropic of Cancer
: Henry Miller s Black(face) Book. - Chapter 9: William Gardner Smith s
The Stone Face:
A Novel Buried in Obscurity for Too Long. - Chapter 10:
Our Paris
: Edmund White s Sketches of Loss. - Chapter 11: French Chic American Style:

Self-governance and the Promise of Social Distinction in Debra Ollivier s
Entre Nous: A Woman s Guide to Finding Her Inner French Girl. - Chapter 12:
Jake Lamar s Expatriate Mysteries: Exercising the Ghosts of Transcontinental Paris Noir. - Chapter 13: Switching Tongues beside the Seine: Translingual American Writers in Paris.