%0 Journal Article
%T There¡¯s No Place like (Fun) Home
%A Juliette Cherbuliez
%J Transatlantica : Revue d'¨¦tudes Am¨¦ricaines
%D 2007
%I Association fran?aise d'¨¦tudes am¨¦ricaines
%X What best describes the status of American Studies in today¡¯s France? Toni Morrison inviting French slammers to declaim their poetry at the Louvre comes to mind immediately. The image of the United States¡¯ foremost Black writer legitimating traditionally marginalized popular verse, and in the bastion of European culture that is France¡¯s premier museum to boot, sparks a series of felicitous paradoxes: the post-emancipation of the colonies comes to the post-colonial, the high brow white man¡¯s m...
%U http://transatlantica.revues.org/1227