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
Jamess 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 Millers Black(face) Book.
Chapter 9: William Gardner Smiths
The Stone Face: A Novel Buried in Obscurity for Too Long.
Chapter 10: Our
Paris: Edmund Whites Sketches of Loss.
Chapter 11: French Chic American
Style: Self-governance and the Promise of Social Distinction in Debra
Olliviers Entre Nous: A Womans Guide to Finding Her Inner French Girl.-
Chapter 12: Jake Lamars Expatriate Mysteries: Exercising the Ghosts of
Transcontinental Paris Noir.
Chapter 13: Switching Tongues beside the Seine:
Translingual American Writers in Paris.
Ferdā Asya is professor of English and she has taught at institutions of higher education nationally and internationally. She is the editor of American Writers in Europe: 1850 to the Present (2013) and Teaching Edith Whartons Major Novels and Short Fiction (2021).
