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PUBLIC MARKS from jeet020 with tags american & writers

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...

14 May 2009

Latin American Writers at Work (Modern Library Paperbacks) (Paperback)

From Booklist Borges, Neruda, Paz, Garcia Marquez, Fuentes, Vargas Llosa–immortals here descend from the firmament of Latin American literature to converse with merely human interviewers for the Paris Review. The writers’ voices&#8...

12 May 2009

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...

05 May 2009

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

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