Village Voices

Table Of 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 the Small Presses
John Strand, Kathy Acker, Edward Limono, Ricardo Mosner, Carol Pratl, David Applefield, Jim Haynes

4 – Black American in Paris: Updating the Myth “Remember Me”: The Legacies of James
Baldwin and Richard Wright
Gordon Heath, Julia Wright, Ernest Gaine, 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
 
6 – From Home to Paris and Elsewhere: Irish Writers at the Village Voice Bookshop
Tributes to James Joyce and Samuel Beckett
Zeljko Ivanjek, John Calder, Anne Atik
Living in Words to Tell the World
Harry Chifton and Deirdre Madden
 
7 – Varieties of Exile: Two Canadian Parisian
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 Begin
 
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, Antonia 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, William S. Merwin
 
Epilogue
 
Acknowledgments
 
Notes
 
Index