Emigré New York

French Intellectuals in Wartime Manhattan, 1940-1944
Erscheinungsjahr 2000
ISBN: 978-0-8018-6286-1
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Format (B × H): 147 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 467 g

New York is fascinating, Paris is fascinating, and Paris-on-the-Hudson, while it lasted, was twice as fascinating

Consider the oddly juxtaposed eminence of those in attendance: Wartime New York was the city where French Symbolism, in the person of Maurice Maeterlinck, came to live out its last productive years; where French surrealism, in the person of André Breton, came to survive; and where French structuralism, in the person of Claude Lévi-Strauss, came to be born. From the largely forgotten prewar visit to the city of Pétain and Laval to the seizing, burning, and capsizing of the Normandie, France's floating museum, in the Hudson River, Jeffrey Mehlman evokes the writerly world of French Manhattan, its achievements and feuds, during one of the most vexed periods of French history.

In Emigré New York, a series of surprising and expertly etched portraits emerge against the backdrop of an overriding irony: the United States, the world's principal hope in the battle against Hitler's barbarism, was for the most part more eager to deal with Pétain's collaborationist regime than with what Secretary of State Cordell Hull called de Gaulle's "so-called Free French" movement.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mehlman, Jeffrey

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Französische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Chapter 1. Dress Rehearsal
Chapter 2. The New Yorker Pétain and the 1870 Paradigm
Chapter 3. Endgame: Maeterlinck in Manhattan
Chapter 4. Denis de Rougemont: New York Gnostic
Chapter 5. Simone Weil: Letters from Harlem
Chapter 6. George Steiner at the Lycée Français
Chapter 7. Louis Rougier and the''Pétain-Churchill Agreement''
Chapter 8. Saint-Exupéry: Between Breton and Maritain
Chapter 9. Saint-John Perse: Discontinuities

Chapter 10. Lévi-Strauss and the Birth of Structuralism
Chapter 11. Coda: Normandie's List
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Mehlman, Jeffrey
Jeffrey Mehlman is University Professor at Boston University and the author, most recently, of Walter Benjamin for Children: An Essay on His Radio Years and Genealogies of the Text: Literature, Psychoanalysis, and Politics in Modern France.