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Index
Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
Foreword
Prologue
Introduction
PART ONE: “Paris, Paris, Above All, Paris!”
1: It Takes a Village: A Time and a Place
2: The Lost and Found Generation: Paris Was a Woman Noël Riley Fitch, Shari Benstock, Joan Schenkar
3: The Third Wave of American Expatriates and Literary Magazines John Strand, Kathy Acker, Eduard Limonov, Ricardo Mosner, Carol Pratl, David Applefield, Edouard Roditi, Jim Haynes
4: Black America in Paris: Updating the Myth “Remember Me”: The Legacies of James Baldwin and Richard Wright Gordon Heath, Julia Wright, Ernest Gaines, James Emanuel, Jake Lamar
5" Emergence of a Literary Force:
To Each Writer Their Own Paris Diane Johnson, Steven Barclay, David Downie, David Sedaris, Edmund White
The Cultural Divide Diane Johnson, Adam Gopnik, Edmund White, René de Ceccatty
6: From Home to Paris and Elsewhere: Irish Writers at the Village Voice Bookshop
Tributes to James Joyce and Samuel Beckett Željko Ivanjek, John Calder, Anne Atik
Living in Words to Tell the World Harry Clifton, Deirdre Madden
7: Varieties of Exile: Two Canadian Parisians Nancy Huston, Mavis Gallant
8: Dark Times: An Anglo-American Focus on the Vichy Regime Raymond Federman, Carmen Callil, Alan Riding, Alice Kaplan on Louis Guilloux
Intermezzo: One Decade Ends, a New One Begins
PART TWO: A Literary Journey across the United States
9: An Era of Hope Leading to Disillusionment Julian Beck, Judith Malina, Allen Ginsberg, Jayne Cortez, Andrei Voznesensky, Kazuko Shiraishi, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Hubert Selby Jr., William H. Gass, William Gaddis, Don DeLillo
10: Bright Lights and Twilights Jay McInerney, Jerome Charyn, Richard Price, James Ellroy
11: Highways and Byways Barry Gifford, David Payne, John Biguenet, Terry Tempest Williams
12: Spectacular Sceneries, Ordinary Lives: American Writers Reel In the French Imagination Jim Harrison, Raymond Carver, Jonathan Raban, Richard Ford, Russell Banks
13: Four Remarkable Women Breaking from Convention Hazel Rowley, Grace Paley, Adrienne Rich, Susan Sontag
14: Native American Renaissance: Storytelling as Repossession James Welch, Louise Erdrich, Sherman Alexie, David Treuer
15: “Me and you . . . we need some kind of tomorrow.” Open Wounds in African American Literature Jake Lamar, John Edgar Wideman, Paule Marshall, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Jayne Cortez, Sapphire, Toni Morrison
16: Shadow Lands: The Here and There in American Stories of Exile André Aciman, Amy Tan, Jamaica Kincaid, Dinaw Mengestu, Junot Díaz, Azar Nafisi
17: Memories of Silenced Lives The Holocaust: Naming the Inexpressible Gwen Edelman, Gitta Sereny, Cynthia Ozick, Art Spiegelman, Nicole Krauss, Daniel Mendelsohn
Intermezzo: The Twenty-First Century Is upon Us Adam Zagajewski, Jacques Derrida
PART THREE: Rounding Out Shakespeare’s Stage: Commonwealth Literatures
18: Expanding Horizons: British Literature in Pursuit of Renewal David Lodge, A. S. Byatt
19: In the Footsteps of Salman Rushdie:
Life Stories from the Indian Subcontinent Hanif Kureishi, Abha Dawesar, Tarun Tejpal
20: Reshaping South Africa: Moving Forward and out of Apartheid Denis Hirson, Breyten Breytenbach, Mandla Langa, Damon Galgut
21: Australian Narratives: As Wide and Varied as the Country Peter Carey, Tim Winton, Julia Leigh
22: Multilayered English Canadian Voices: Lingering Memories of Europe Margaret Atwood, Jane Urquhart, Michael Ondaatje
PART FOUR: Closing Ceremonies
23: The Center Holds: Our Circle of Poets Stephen Spender, Harry Mathews, Marilyn Hacker, Margo Berdeshevsky, Marie Ponsot, Kathleen Spivack, C. K. Williams, Ellen Hinsey, W. S. Merwin
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
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