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Imagining Paris - Exile, Writing, and American Identity (Paperback, New Ed)
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Imagining Paris - Exile, Writing, and American Identity (Paperback, New Ed)
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Between 1900 and 1940, Paris was the capital of high modernism and
the center of artistic experimentation-Paris was "where the
twentieth century was," claimed Gertrude Stein. In this book, J.
Gerald Kennedy explores how living in Paris shaped the careers and
literary works of five expatriate Americans: Gertrude Stein, Ernest
Hemingway, Henry Miller, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Djuna Barnes.
Kennedy shows that the writings of these authors reveal their
various struggles to accommodate themselves to a complex, foreign
scene, to construct an expatriate self, or to understand the
contradictions of American identity. He treats these figures and
their narratives as instances of the profound effect of place on
writing and on the formation of the self. According to Kennedy,
Stein's Paris, France presents an abstraction, a series of random
and discontinuous images refracted into a theory of the French way
of life. Her self- portrait in The Autobiography of Alice B.
Toklas, however, hinges on a contrast between the outside world of
galleries, studios, and exhibitions and her inner domain at 27, rue
de Fleurus. Hemingway's conflict with Paris, says Kennedy, betrays
both an attraction to its danger and a disgust with its profligacy,
as seen in the ambivalent imagery of The Sun Also Rises. Miller's
Paris emerges in his Letters to Emil and Tropic of Cancer as a
tormenting world of alleyways, sewers, and flophouses that
nevertheless becomes a site of deliverance where Miller discovers
himself as a literary subject. The nocturnal, unreal Paris of
Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night and Barnes's Nightwood reflects
the disorientation of modernism, which parallel and intensify the
estrangement of exile.
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