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- Title
New Readings of American Expats in Paris.
- Authors
Gammel, Irene
- Abstract
More than fifty years after his violent death in 1961, Ernest Hemingway remains a writer of gigantic proportions. He has a faithful following among high school and university readers, bolstered by a popular culture industry of Hollywood adaptations, biopics, documentaries, and fictionalized expat films: most recently, Hemingway and Gellhorn (2012), an action-packed film starring Clive Owen and Nicole Kidman; Woody Allen's summer blockbuster comedy Midnight in Paris (2011); Greta Schiller's documentary Paris Was A Woman (1996); and Alan Rudolph's The Moderns (1988). What could three new expat books-two of them volumes of largely unpublished letters by Hemingway and by Sylvia Beach, along with a new fictional portrait of Hemingway's first marriage to Hadley Richardson-possibly add to this rich reputation? In a word, plenty, as newly published sources become available, and as the women contributors to Modernism move from the sidelines into the limelight, claiming their own experiences and reconfiguring American identity in post-war Paris. The combined insights of these three books are manifold and will resonate for years to come.
- Subjects
LETTERS of Sylvia Beach, The (Book); LETTERS of Ernest Hemingway 1907-1922, The (Book); PARIS Wife, The (Book); EXPATRIATE authors; HEMINGWAY, Ernest, 1899-1961; BEACH, Sylvia, 1887-1962; RICHARDSON, Hadley; MODERNISM (Literature); HISTORY; MODERNISM (Literary period)
- Publication
Canadian Review of American Studies, 2014, Vol 44, Issue 1, p148
- ISSN
0007-7720
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.3138/cras.2014.004