Frères ennemis : the French in American literature, Americans in French literature
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Frères ennemis : the French in American literature, Americans in French literature
Liverpool University Press, 2018
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Bibliography: p. 275-285
Includes index
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An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.
Freres Ennemis focuses on Franco-American tensions as portrayed in works of literature from approximately the mid-nineteenth-century to the present. An Introduction is followed by nine chapters, each focused on a French or American literary text which shows the evolution/devolution of the relations between the two nations at a particular point in time. While the heart of the analysis consists of close textual readings, social, cultural and political contexts are introduced to provide a better understanding of the historical reality influencing the individual novels, a reality to which these novels are also responding. Chapters One through Five, covering a period from the mid-1870s to the end of the Cold War, discuss significant aspects of the often fraught relationship from the theoretical perspective of Roland Barthes' theory of modern myth, described in his Mythologies. Barthes' theory helps situate Franco-American tensions in a paradigmatic structure, while at the same time it is supple enough to allow for shifts and reversals within the paradigm. Subsequent chapters explore new French attitudes toward the powerful, potentially dominant influence of American culture on French life. In these sections I argue that recent French fiction displays more openness to the American experience than has existed in the past, and as such contrasts with the more static American approach to French culture.
Table of Contents
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction: A Clash of the Comparable
Chapter I: The Creation of the American in Paris: The American
Chapter II: Splendor and Misery of the American Scientist: L'Eve future
Chapter III: The American Woman and the Invention of Paris: The Custom of the Country
Chapter IV: The Expatriate Idyll: The Sun Also Rises
Chapter V: Blindness and Insight: the Cold War in Les mandarins
Chapter VI: Embracing American Culture: Cherokee
Chapter VII: An American Excursion into French Fiction: The Book of Illusions
Chapter VIII: Rerouting: Ca n'existe pas l'Amerique
Chapter IX: L'Americaine in Paris: Le Divorce
Conclusion: Stasis and Movement
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