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Title: Silk or nylon: Boris Vian, leg fetishism and the American way
Author/Creator: Rolls, Alistair
Description: Rolls criticizes the literary works of Boris Vian, particularly on his writings that concerns the history of fashion that coincides with that of Americanization. In Vian's famous love story L'Ecume des jours, nylon represents less American beauty than American dynamism. Rolls further stated that Vian's works has become synonymous by its focus upon objects of personal rather than wider economic gain. The desperate voices condemning and praising the United States in France during the inter-war years are condensed in the body of Boris Vian's writings.
Relation: AUMLA: Journal of the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association Issue 103, p. 93-108
Date: 2005
Publisher: Australian Universities Language and Literature Association
Keyword(s): Boris Vian; history of fashion; L'Ecume des jours; Americanization; nylon; silk
Resource Type: journal article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/24632
Identifier: ISSN:0001-2793
Language: eng

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