Alienating American Studies: A European Perspective

Pierre Guerlain

EN

Alienating American Studies: A European Perspective

Abstract

In matters of theory and understanding, it is not uncommon for outsiders and spectators to gain a sharper and deeper insight into the actual meaning of what happens to go on before or around them than would be possible for the actual actors or participants, entirely absorbed as they must be in the events.

References

Amossy, Ruth. Les Idées Reçues: Sémiologie du stéréotype. Paris: Nathan, 1991.
Appleby, Joyce, Lynn Hunt and Margaret Jacob. Telling the Truth about History. New York and London: W.W Norton, 1994.
Barzini, Luigi. The Impossible Europeans. London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1983.
Baudrillard, Jean. Amérique. Paris: Grasset, 1986.
Bidaud, Anne Marie. Hollywood et le rêve américain: Cinéma et idéologie aux Etats Unis. Paris: Masson, 1995.
Bishop, Tom. Le passeur d’océan: Carnet d'un ami américain. Paris: Payot, 1989.
----- and Christine Faure. L’Amérique des Français. Paris: Éditions François Bourrin, 1992.
Bleikasten, André. “Y atil une critique américaine?” Revue Française d'Études Américaines. Juillet 1995: 405-418.
Bollinfer, Daniel and Gert Hofstede. Les différences culturelles dans le management: Comment chaque pays gère-t-il ses hommes?Paris: Les Éditions d’Organisation, 1987.
Boltanski, Luc. “America, America . . . Le plan Marshall et l'importation du ‘management’.’’ Actes de la Recherche en Sciences Sociales, 38(Mai 1981): 19-41.

Boorstin, Daniel J. America and the Image of Europe: Reflections on American thought. New York: Meridian Books, 1960.
-----. The Image or What Happened to the American Dream. London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1961.
Bourdieu, Pierre. Ce que parler veut dire. Paris: Fayard, 1982.
Boynton, Robert S. “The New Intellectuals.” The Atlantic Monthly. (March 1995): 53-70.
Brinton, Crane. The Americans and the French. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1968.
Carroll, Raymonde. Évidences invisibles: Américains et Français au quotidien. Paris: Seuil, 1987.
Castro, Ginette. Radioscopie du féminisme américain. Paris: Presses de la Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, 1984.
Certeau, Michel de. La Culture au pluriel. 1974. Paris: Seuil-Points, 1993.
Costigliola, Frank. France and the United States: The Cold Alliance, 1940-1990. New York: Twayne, 1992.
Dogan, Mattei and Dominique Pelassy. How to Compare Nations: Strategies in Comparative Politics. 1984. New York: Chatham House, 1990.
Dow, William. “Report from the Other Academy: Non-American Voices and American Literature.” Revue Française d'Études Américaines, Juillet 1995: 484- 495.
Duclos, Denis. Le Complexe du loup garou: la fascination de la violence dans la culture américaine. Paris: La Découverte, 1994.
Dumont, Louis. Essais sur l'individualisme: Une perspective anthropologique sur l'idéologie moderne. 1983. Paris: Seuil-Essais, 1985.
Dupont, Florence. Homère et Dallas. Paris: Hachette, 1991.
Elias, Norbert. Qu'est ce que la sociologie? Paris: Éditions de l’Aube, 1981.
-----. and John L Scotson. The Established and the Outsiders: A Sociological Enquiry into Community Problems. 1965. London: Sage, 1994.
Eudes, Yves. La conquête des esprits: L’appareil d'exportation culturelle américaine. Paris: Maspéro, 1982.
Fabre, Michel. La Rive Noire: De Harlem à la Seine. Paris: Lieu Commun, 1985. Fassin, Eric. “Pouvoirs sexuels: Le juge Thomas, la Cour suprême et la société américaine.” Esprit, Décembre 1991: 102-130.
-----. “Disneylove.” Esprit, Janvier 1993: 82-91.
-----. “La chaire et le canon: Les intellectuels, la politique et l’Université aux États Unis.” Annales, 2(Mars-Avril 1993): 265-301.
Fish, Stanley. Professional Correctness, Literary Studies and Political Change. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995.
Funke, Peter (ed.).Understanding the USA: A Cross-Cultural Perspective. Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 1989.
Furet, François. “L’utopie démocratique à l’américaine.” Le Débat 69(Mars-Avril 1992): 80-91.
Gates, Jr., Henry, Louis. Loose Canons: Notes on the Culture Wars. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992.
Geertz, Clifford. The Interpretation of Cultures. New York: Basic Books, 1973.
Giroux, Henry A. Postmodernism, Feminism, and Cultural Politics: Redrawing Educational Boundaries. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1991.
Gitlin, Todd. The Twilight of Common Dreams: Why America is Wracked by Culture Wars. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1995.
-----. The Whole World is Watching: Mass Media in the Making and Unmaking of the New Left. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981.
Gross, Paul and Norman Levitt. Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and its Quarrels with Science. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994.
Guerlain, Pierre. Miroirs transatlantiques: La France et les États Unis entre passions et indifférences. Paris: L’Harmattan, 1996.
-----. “Le préjugé et l’étude des différences transculturelles.” Intercultures, 24(Avril 1994): 39-56.
-----. “L’américanisation de la France: Un espace culturel entre réel et imaginaire.” L’Amérique comme modèle, l'Amérique sans modèle. Dir. Jacques Portes. Paris: Presse Universitaire de Lille, 1993. 193-205.
-----. “La Francophonie sous le regard américain.” Contemporary French Civilization. Winter 1992-1993. 37-58.
-----. “Qui diabolise Eurodisney? (Eurodisney et les malentendus francoaméricains).” Esprit, Juin 1992. 160-169.
-----. “Dead again: Anti-Americanism in France.” French Cultural Studies, June 1992. 197-202.
-----. “Affaire Sokal: Swift sociologue; les cultural studies entre jargon, mystification et recherche.” Annales du Monde Anglophone,9(1er semestre 1999): 141-160.
Hall, Edward T. The Dance of Life: The Other Dimensions of Time. New York, Anchor Books, 1983.
-----. The Hidden Dimension. 1969. New York: Anchor Books, 1982.
-----. The Silent Language. 1959. New York: Anchor Books, 1973.
-----. Beyond Culture. New York: Anchor Books 1977.
----- and Milfred Reed. Understanding Cultural Differences. Yarmouth, ME: Intercultural Press, Inc., 1990.
Heffer, Jean and François Weil, dir. Chantiers d’histoire américaine. Paris: Belin, 1994.
Hoffmann, Stanley, “Entretien avec Nancy Blake.” Tel Quel 7173(Automne 1977): 111-118.
-----. “Look Back in Anger.” New York Review of Books. July 17, 1997: 45-50.
Hofstadter, Richard. Anti-intellectualism in American Life. New York: Knopf, 1963.
Hollander, Paul. Anti-Americanism: Critiques at Home and Abroad, 1965-1990. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
Horowitz, Donald L. and Gérard Noiriel, eds. Immigrants in Two Democracies: French and American Experience. New York: New York Press, 1992.
Iribarne, Philippe d’. “Culture et effet sociétal.” Revue française de sociologie, 32(Octobre-Décembre 1991): 599-614.
-----. La Logique de l’honneur: Gestion des entreprises et traditions nationales. Paris: Seuil, 1989.
Jacoby, Russell. Dogmatic Wisdom: How the Culture Wars Divert Education and Distract America. New York: Doubleday, 1994.
-----. The Last Intellectuals: American Culture in the Age of Academe. New York: Basic Books, 1987.
Jameson, Frederic. Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism. London: Verso 1991.
Julien, Claude. L'Empire Américain. Paris: Grasset, 1968.
Kaenel, André. “After the Cold War: Region, Nation and World in American Studies.” “Writing” Nation and “Writing” Region in America. Amsterdam: VU University Press, 1996. 73-81.
-----. “Les Études américaines, Whitman et le nationalisme américain.” Idéologies dans le monde anglosaxon. CERA, Université de Grenoble. 6(1993): 43-57.
Kaplan, Alice Yaeger. Reproductions of Banality: Fascism, Literature and French Intellectual life. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1986.
-----. French Lesson: A Memoir. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1993.
Kennedy, Randall. Race, Crime and the Law. New York: Pantheon Books, 1997.
Kroes, Rob. If You’ve Seen One, You’ve Seen the Mall: Europeans and American Mass Culture. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1996.
----- (ed.). Within the US Orbit, Small National Cultures vis-à-vis the US, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 1991.
----- (ed.). Anti-Americanism in Europe, Amsterdam: Free University Press, 1986.
Kuisel, Richard. Seducing the French: The Dilemma of Americanization. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1993.
Lacorne, Denis, Jacques Rupnic and Marie France Toinet, dir. L’Amérique dans les têtes: Un siècle de fascinations et d’aversions. Paris: Hachette, 1986.
-----. “Disneyland et Eurodisneyland.” Paris: Esprit, Juin 1986: 105-113.
-----. “Regards croisés au dessus de l’Atlantique.” Politique Internationale, 37(Automne 1987): 43-48.
-----. “La Politique du soupçon d’immoralité: Comparaisons FrancoAméricaines.” Pouvoir, Janvier 1993: 89-98.
Lamont, Michèle. Money, Morals and Manners: The Culture of the French and American Upper Middle Class. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.
Lerner, Max. Tocqueville and American Civilization. 1966. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 1994.
Marienstras, Élise. Les mythes fondateurs de la nation américaine. 1976. Paris: Éditions Complexe, 1992.
Mathy, Jean Philippe. Extrême Occident, French Intellectuals and America. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1993.
-----. “Versions Françaises de L'Amérique: Sartre et le Modèle Tocqueville.” Contemporary French Civilization. Summer/Fall 1988: 207-225.
Myrdal, Gunnar. An American Dilemma. New York: Harper and Row, 1944.
Morin, Edgar. 1984. Sociologie. Paris: Fayard, 1994.
-----. Journal de Californie. Paris: Seuil, 1970.
Novic, Peter. That Noble Dream; The “Objectivity Question” and the American Historical Profession. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
Nye, Joseph S. Bound to Lead: The Changing Nature of American Power. New York: Basic Books, 1990.
Paglia, Camille. Sex, Art and American Culture. New York: Vintage Books, 1992.
-----. “Ninnies, Pedants, Tyrants and Other Academics.” The New York Times Book Review. May 5, 1991: 29, 31.
Patterson, Orlando. The Ordeal of Integration, Progress and Resentment in America's “Racial” Crisis. Washington D.C.: Civitas, 1997.
-----. Rituals of Blood: Consequences of Slavery in Two American Centuries. Washington D.C.: Civitas, 1998.
Paxton, Robert. Vichy France and the Jews. New York: Basic Books, 1991.
Pells, Richard. Not Like US: How Europeans Have Loved, Hated, and Transformed American Culture Since World War II. New York: Basic Books, 1997.
Pinkney, David H. “Time to Bury the Pinkney Thesis?” French Historical Studies. 17.1(Spring 1991): 219-223.
Pinto, Diana. Entre deux mondes. Paris: Odile Jacob, 1991.
Ravault, René Jean. “Des effets pervers de l'expansion mondiale des médias américains.” Les médias américains en France: Influence et pénétration. Eds. Jean Claude Bertrand and Francis Bordat. Paris: Belin, 1989. 226-251.
-----. “L'impérialisme boomerang.” Revue française d’études américaines. 24- 25 Mai 1985: 291-312.
Reich, Robert B. The Work of Nations: Preparing Ourselves for 21st Century Capitalism. New York: Knopf, 1991.
Rodriguez, Richard. Days of Obligation: An Argument with my Mexican Father. New York: Penguin Books, 1993.
Rossignol, Marie Jeanne. Le ferment nationaliste: Aux origines de la politique extérieure des États Unis: 1789-1812. Paris: Belin, 1994.
Said, Edward. Culture and Imperialism. New York: Knopf, 1993.
-----. Representations of the Intellectual: The 1993 Reith Lectures. New York: Pantheon Books, 1994.
Schiller, Herbert I. Culture, Inc.: The Corporate Takeover of Public Expression. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.
Schwartz, Benjamin. “The Diversity Myth: America’s Leading Export.” The Atlantic Monthly, May 1995: 57-67.
Simmons, James C. Americans: The View from Abroad. New York: Harmony Books, 1990.
Sokal, Alan. “Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity.” Social Text 46-47(1996): 217-252.
-----. “Transgressing the Boundaries: an Afterword.” Dissent, Fall 1996: 93-99.
----- and Jean Bricmont.Impostures intellectuelles. Paris: Odile Jacob, 1997.
Stearn, Emanuel, ed. Broken Image: Foreign Critiques of America. New York: Random House, 1972.
Steiner, George. “Qu'estce que la littérature comparée?” Commentaire. Été 1995: 383-393.
Stewart, Edward C. and Milton J. Bennet. American Cultural Patterns: A CrossCultural Perspective. 1991. Paris: Masson, 1995.
Suleiman, Ezra N. Elites in French Society: The Politics of Survival. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1978.
Taguieff, Pierre André. La Force du préjugé: Essai sur le racisme et ses doubles. Paris: La Découverte, 1988.
Thibau, Jacques. La France colonisée. Paris: Flammarion, 1980.
Tocqueville, Alexis de. De la démocratie en Amérique. 1835-1840. 4 vols. Paris: G.F Flammarion, 1981.
Toinet, Marie France et Annie Lennkh, dir. L'État des États Unis. Paris: La Découverte, 1990.
Turkle, Sherry. Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995.
Tyson, Laura d’Andrea. Who’s Bashing Whom?: Trade Conflict in High Technology Industries. Washington D.C: Institute for International Economics, 1992.
Ullmo, Sylvia, (ed.). L'Immigration américaine: Exemple ou contre-exemple pour la France?. Paris: L'Harmattan, 1995.
Young-Bruehl, E. For Love of the World. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982.
Walzer, Michael. What It Means To Be an American. New York: Marsilio, 1992. Weber, Eugen, “Of Stereotypes and of the French.” Journal of Contemporary History, 25(1990): 169-203.
Williams, Jeffrey (ed.). PC Wars: Politics and Theory in the Academy. New York: Routledge, 1995.
Woodward, C. Vann. The Old World’s New World. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
Wylie, Laurence and Sarella Henriquez. “French Images of American Life.” The Tocqueville Review, 2 (Fall-Winter 1982): 176-274.

Details

Primary Language

English

Subjects

-

Journal Section

-

Authors

Pierre Guerlain This is me

Publication Date

April 1, 1999

Submission Date

-

Acceptance Date

-

Published in Issue

Year 1999 Number: 9

IZ

https://izlik.org/JA35EN52TG

APA

Guerlain, P. (1999). Alienating American Studies: A European Perspective. Journal of American Studies of Turkey, 9, 33-52. https://izlik.org/JA35EN52TG

AMA

1.Guerlain P. Alienating American Studies: A European Perspective. JAST. 1999;(9):33-52. https://izlik.org/JA35EN52TG

Chicago

Guerlain, Pierre. 1999. “Alienating American Studies: A European Perspective”. Journal of American Studies of Turkey, nos. 9: 33-52. https://izlik.org/JA35EN52TG.

EndNote

Guerlain P (April 1, 1999) Alienating American Studies: A European Perspective. Journal of American Studies of Turkey 9 33–52.

IEEE

[1]P. Guerlain, “Alienating American Studies: A European Perspective”, JAST, no. 9, pp. 33–52, Apr. 1999, [Online]. Available: https://izlik.org/JA35EN52TG

ISNAD

Guerlain, Pierre. “Alienating American Studies: A European Perspective”. Journal of American Studies of Turkey. 9 (April 1, 1999): 33-52. https://izlik.org/JA35EN52TG.

JAMA

1.Guerlain P. Alienating American Studies: A European Perspective. JAST. 1999;:33–52.

MLA

Guerlain, Pierre. “Alienating American Studies: A European Perspective”. Journal of American Studies of Turkey, no. 9, Apr. 1999, pp. 33-52, https://izlik.org/JA35EN52TG.

Vancouver

1.Pierre Guerlain. Alienating American Studies: A European Perspective. JAST [Internet]. 1999 Apr. 1;(9):33-52. Available from: https://izlik.org/JA35EN52TG

JAST - Journal of American Studies of Turkey

Alienating American Studies: A European Perspective

Abstract

Abstract

References

Details

Primary Language

Subjects

Journal Section

Authors

Publication Date

Submission Date

Acceptance Date

Published in Issue

IZ

Cite