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Nightmare Envy and Other Stories - American Culture and European Reconstruction (Hardcover)
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Nightmare Envy and Other Stories - American Culture and European Reconstruction (Hardcover)
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Up until the end of World War II, academe in central Europe showed
little interest in American culture. However, this rapidly changed
as American culture became an increasingly inescapable part of
everyday life in the postwar period. Drawing on a series of
transatlantic encounters in the years following 1945, George
Blaustein chronicles how issues like race, gender, and empire, as
they relate to the United States, became areas of intense interest
among members of the European academy. A major part of Blaustein's
book revolves around the exchange of ideas that took place at the
Salzburg Seminar in American Studies, founded in 1947. Through the
period of occupation, the seminar hosted a who's-who of American
and European intellectual life: figures like F. O. Matthiessen,
Margaret Mead, Alfred Kazin, Saul Bellow, Ralph Ellison, Alain
Locke, and John Hope Franklin. In four concise chapters, Nightmare
Envy and Other Stories explores how the ruin of postwar Europe led
writers and intellectuals on both sides of the Atlantic to
understand America in new ways. Nightmare Envy and Other Stories
will interest scholars in the fields of American Studies, postwar
intellectual history, and cultural diplomacy.
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