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- catalog abstract "This study concentrates on the importance of American influences on Vian's extensive jazz activities and his mock translations of American noir novels under the name Vernon Sullivan. Vian personally embodied the increasingly transatlantic nature of Western culture and the melding of elite and popular forms of expression. The diverse components of this synthesis shed light on the construction of both individual and national identity in postwar France.".
- catalog contributor b11115354.
- catalog coverage "France Intellectual life 20th century.".
- catalog coverage "France Relations United States.".
- catalog coverage "United States Relations France.".
- catalog created "c1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "c1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1998.".
- catalog description "1. Childhood Dreams: France in the Thirties. The Vians. Work and Play. Role Models -- 2. Thinking American: French Opinion and the U.S., 1930-1950. A Troubled Peace, A Drole de Guerre. The Approach of Industrial Society. American Imperialism. The American Other -- 3. Representations. Representing Americans: the expatriate Yanks. American Representations: the Novel. American Representations: Film. Black Americans in Paris. Negritude and Black Americans. French Writers Representing America -- 4. The War Years: Boris Zazou. After the Fall. Wartime Letters. Vian and Company. Zazous. Liberation -- 5. Second Linin': Boris Vian and American Jazz. Jazz Bloodlines. Racial discrimination. La Querelle du bebop. Musicians. Jazz in Europe. American Social Issues in the Jazz Press. Jazz Ideologies. The Liberties and Limitations of Jazz Performance -- 6. Roman Noir: Sullivan, Chandler and Cain. The passe-blanc Sullivans. The Action/Fantasy Sullivans. Tough-guy Voices.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "This study concentrates on the importance of American influences on Vian's extensive jazz activities and his mock translations of American noir novels under the name Vernon Sullivan. Vian personally embodied the increasingly transatlantic nature of Western culture and the melding of elite and popular forms of expression. The diverse components of this synthesis shed light on the construction of both individual and national identity in postwar France.".
- catalog extent "x, 176 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Boris Vian transatlantic.".
- catalog identifier "0820440132".
- catalog isFormatOf "Boris Vian transatlantic.".
- catalog isPartOf "Francophone cultures and literatures ; v. 25".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "c1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : P. Lang,".
- catalog relation "Boris Vian transatlantic.".
- catalog spatial "France Intellectual life 20th century.".
- catalog spatial "France Relations United States.".
- catalog spatial "France".
- catalog spatial "France.".
- catalog spatial "United States Relations France.".
- catalog subject "848/.91409 21".
- catalog subject "Jazz France History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Jazz France.".
- catalog subject "PQ2643.I152 Z72 1998".
- catalog subject "Vian, Boris, 1920-1959.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Childhood Dreams: France in the Thirties. The Vians. Work and Play. Role Models -- 2. Thinking American: French Opinion and the U.S., 1930-1950. A Troubled Peace, A Drole de Guerre. The Approach of Industrial Society. American Imperialism. The American Other -- 3. Representations. Representing Americans: the expatriate Yanks. American Representations: the Novel. American Representations: Film. Black Americans in Paris. Negritude and Black Americans. French Writers Representing America -- 4. The War Years: Boris Zazou. After the Fall. Wartime Letters. Vian and Company. Zazous. Liberation -- 5. Second Linin': Boris Vian and American Jazz. Jazz Bloodlines. Racial discrimination. La Querelle du bebop. Musicians. Jazz in Europe. American Social Issues in the Jazz Press. Jazz Ideologies. The Liberties and Limitations of Jazz Performance -- 6. Roman Noir: Sullivan, Chandler and Cain. The passe-blanc Sullivans. The Action/Fantasy Sullivans. Tough-guy Voices.".
- catalog title "Boris Vian transatlantic : sources, myths, and dreams / Christopher M. Jones.".
- catalog type "text".