American Writers in Paris

Ferdâ Asya, Professor of English, received her PhD degree in American literature from Indiana University, Bloomington, USA. She has lived in Canada and different countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, including Paris, and the Middle East and taught graduate and undergraduate courses at several institutions of higher education nationally and internationally. She works in the fields of nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature with an emphasis on the turn of the century, the era of Realism, Naturalism, and early Modernism. Her academic interests also include international literature with a focus on American expatriate writing in Europe, particularly in Paris. She has articles published in peer-reviewed journals and books, and papers presented at national and international conferences on the works of such writers as Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, Djuna Barnes, Gertrude Stein, Diane Johnson, Nella Larsen, James Baldwin, Leslie Marmon Silko, Marge Piercy, Allegra Goodman, Francesca Segal, Anna de Noailles, Charlotte Delbo, Chinua Achebe, Prosper Mérimée, and Walter Winter. She is the editor of American Writers in Europe: 1850 to the Present (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) and Teaching Edith Wharton's Major Novels and Short Fiction (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021). Currently, she is working on a bibliography, titled American Expatriate Literature in Paris, forthcoming in 2024, and a book, tentatively titled Djuna Barnes and Paris. A Fulbright scholar, she has received grants for teaching and research from the American Library Association, Edith Wharton Society, and National Endowment for the Arts.

Chapter 1: Introduction-Literary and Cultural Contexts.- Chapter 2: "The most hospitable of cities": Ralph Waldo Emerson and Paris.- Chapter 3: The American in Paris: Sources, Stereotypes, American Exceptionalism, and Henry James's The American.- Chapter 4: Finding Herself Elsewhere: Grace King, Madame Blanc, and Le Petit Salon.- Chapter 5: The Chronotope of "the Temporary Autonomous Zone" in Djuna Barnes's Nightwood.- Chapter 6: Save Me from the Waltz: Zelda Fitzgerald and the Trauma Cultures of Expatriate Paris.- Chapter 7: Worlds beyond All Fact and Flesh: William Faulkner, Paul Cézanne, and the Phenomenology of Visual Art.- Chapter 8: Reframing Tropic of Cancer: Henry Miller's Black(face) Book.- Chapter 9: William Gardner Smith's The Stone Face: A Novel Buried in Obscurity for Too Long.- Chapter 10: Our Paris: Edmund White's Sketches of Loss.- Chapter 11: French Chic American Style: Self-governance and the Promise of Social Distinction in Debra Ollivier's Entre Nous: A Woman's Guide to Finding Her Inner French Girl.- Chapter 12: Jake Lamar's Expatriate Mysteries: Exercising the Ghosts of Transcontinental Paris Noir.- Chapter 13: Switching Tongues beside the Seine: Translingual American Writers in Paris.