ISBN:
1527543390
,
9781527543393
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xxxiv, 345 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Transatlantic intellectual networks, 1914-1964 / edited by Hans Bak and Céline Mansanti
DDC:
001.409182/1
Keywords:
History, Modern 20th century
;
Research History 20th century
;
Cultural fusion History 20th century
;
History, Modern
;
Research
;
Cultural fusion
;
Intellectual life
;
History
;
Atlantic Ocean Region Intellectual life 20th century
;
History
;
Western countries Intellectual life 20th century
;
Atlantic Ocean Region
;
Western countries
Abstract:
Introduction: transatlantic intellectual networks, 1914-1964 / Hans Bak -- Waldo Frank and transatlantic intellectual relationships from 1914 to the early 1960s / Anne Ollivier-Mellios -- Divergent modernisms and Sur, a transatlantic "Americanist" magazine / Priscilla Archibald -- The New Negro: a German promise from Mexico? Transcultural perspectives on the Harlem Renaissance / Frank Mehring -- American modernism and transatlanticism in the early 20th century: European cultural domination and American responses / Céline Mansanti -- Cradle of Transatlantic anti-communism: the early years of Encounter (1953-1958) / Aurélie Godet -- Close connections: Grove Press, Evergreen Review and German-language literature, 1957-1965 / Maarten van Gageldonk -- Bourne reborn: a look back at "trans-national America" / Eric J. Sandeen -- Race across the Atlantic: Jean-Paul Sartre and Richard Wright's transatlantic network in 1940s Paris / Laurence Cossu-Beaumont -- Being "elsewhere," being in America: Beauvoir's traveling and narrating self / Babs Boter -- Beyond boundaries: the bombinb of Royan in Howard Zinn's life and work: a transnational reconsideration / Ambre Ivol -- Beyond ambivalence? Dutch writers and intellectuals on "Amerika" and American literature, 1908-1948 / Hans Bak -- Without meeting each other: Czech mediators of Willa Cather and Robinson Jeffers / Marcel Arbeit
Abstract:
The twelve essays in this book - by scholars from the U.S., France, Germany, the Netherlands and the Czech Republic - offer new transnational perspectives in transatlantic historical, literary, and cultural studies. They explore the special role of American and European intellectuals as agents of transatlantic cultural transfer, and examine the mechanisms and instruments through which artists, writers and intellectuals communicated across oceans and national borders, in the half century between 1914 and 1964. Their focus is on transatlantic networks and the instruments of culture through which such networks become operative as sites of cross-cultural exchange, circulation and interaction: magazines, cafés, publishing houses, book fairs, agents, translators, and mediators - and last but not least, transatlantic personal friendships. Contending that the dynamics of transatlantic cultural transfer need to be understood as reciprocal and multi-directional, they also exemplify the shift within transatlantic intellectual history from a traditional concern with European-U.S. relations to a multidirectional, triangular exploration of cultural, political and intellectual relations between Europe, the United States, and Latin America
Note:
Includes bibliographical references
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