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Extraordinary, ordinary women : questions of expatriate identity in contemporary American Paris / Kelly Rogers.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rogers, Kelly.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--United States.
- Women.
- Paris (France)--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.
- Paris (France).
- France--Paris.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (99 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : University Press of America, Inc., 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A portrait of twenty American expatriate women currently residing in Paris that examines the consequences of immigration, biculturalism, and assimilation on the individual identities of modern expatriate women.
- Contents:
- Introduction : chasing Sabrina
- Who do you think you are? : questions of identity
- Defining an "American" Paris
- The research : meeting Americans in Paris
- The parable of the letter jacket
- Modes of exodus : transplantation, expatriation, exile
- The problematic second person : learning and speaking French
- Madame la Maîtresse d'Anglais : working in France.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-7618-8952-3
- 0-7618-6228-5
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