| Titre | Observations transatlantiques : les américanistes français et les Etats-Unis | |
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| Auteur | Pierre Guerlain | |
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Revue | Revue française d'études américaines |
| Numéro | no 69, juin 1996 Femmes écrivains au tournant du siècle. | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Hors thème |
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| Page | 24 pages | |
| Résumé anglais |
The aim of this paper is to study the professional relationship between French American Studies specialists with their American colleagues and to analyze the specific contributions they, along with many other non-Americans, make to the field. As outsiders the French may have to overcome a geographic and cultural handicap but they also provide their American colleagues with fresh view-points and angles to tackle the many facets of American life. The relationship between insiders and outsiders is often central to a mutual widening of perceptions. America itself is made up of a collection of outsider groups, and the marginalized and forgotten within American society are in a similar position vis-à-vis mainstream society as foreign analysts are in relation to America. Their perceptions of America enrich the whole culture of the United States which, probably more than other countries, has a "common culture that is multicultural." Foreign observers, who work with Americans and in American institutions, often prove to be a boon to Americans themselves who might be too immersed in their cultural milieu to perceive what they take for granted. In the same way as Americanists the world over obviously benefit from the work of their American counterparts, the field of American Studies can only be enriched by transnational observation and cooperation. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | https://www.persee.fr/doc/rfea_0397-7870_1996_num_69_1_1653 |
