Explorers and Exiles in Paris

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This course explores modern writings (fiction, poetry, essays, and more) emerging mostly from American and British exiles, expatriates, and explorers living in Paris during the early and mid-twentieth century. Paris, like Harlem and Buenos Aires, was one of the great cities where during the twentieth century writers and artists of all sorts gravitated in order to be a part of the cultural and artistic movements unfolding there; and students in this class will journey alongside our various writers as they travel to seek out new and uncommon experience down the cobbled streets and in the arc-lit cafés of Paris. Students will read works by writers such as Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, HD, Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Mina Loy and others who chose to leave their homeland in order to forge a new life, a new home, and new types of writing and expression in Paris.