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17 May 2009

The Lights of Home: A Century of Latin American Writers in Paris (Paperback)

Review As theoretical constructs turn more and more of the past into an abstraction, detailed cultural histories like The Lights of Home give us the breathing space to reimagine global literary life. Deeply informed and painstakingly researche...

16 May 2009

New Negro Artists in Paris: African American Painters and Sculptors in the City of Light, 1922-1934 (Paperback)

This work analyzes the experiences and works of six African American artists who lived and worked in Paris during the Jazz Age: sculptors Elizabeth Prophet and Augusta Savage, and painters Palmer Hayden, Hale Woodruff, Archibald J. Motley, Jr. and A...

12 May 2009

The Making of Americans in Paris: The Autobiographies of Edith Wharton and Gertrude Stein (American University Studies Series Xxiv, American Literature) (Hardcover)

While living in Paris at the beginning of the twentieth century, expatriate American writers Edith Wharton (1862–1937) and Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) never crossed paths. Even so, they did rub shoulders in print, in autobiographical essays publish...

FROM HARLEM TO PARIS: Black American Writers in France, 1840-1980 (Paperback)

From Publishers Weekly This plodding, academic study uses accounts from more than 60 African American writers–Countee Cullen, James Baldwin, Chester Himes et al.–to explain why they were more readily accepted socially in Paris than...

09 May 2009

French Fried: The Culinary Capers Of An American In Paris (Hardcover)

From Library Journal Here are two culinary memoirs by American women now living in France. The similarities end there, as one author went to France for the food and stayed for the life that grew up around her, while the other moved to France f...

08 May 2009

An American in Paris (1951) - 11 x 17 - Style A

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07 May 2009

An American in Paris (1951 Film Soundtrack) [SOUNDTRACK]

Amazon.com essential recording This is a considerably expanded version of the soundtrack album to Vincente Minnelli’s Oscar-winning film. With two discs and 100 minutes of music (much of which is presented for the first time), these orig...

06 May 2009

An American in Paris (1951. Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron) (1951)

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05 May 2009

The continual pilgrimage : American writers in Paris, 1944-1960 / Christopher Sawyer-Laucanno (Hardcover)

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