http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/services/Feed ${session.getAttribute("locale")} 5 http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:1501 This article analyses an instance of leg fetishism in Boris Vian’s L’Écume des jours (1947). The aim is to show how the protagonist’s fixation on a pair of nylon stockings can be read as a negotiation of the problems of modernity: the ambivalence that the French feel towards the Americanisation of their culture in the postwar years is shown to be located at the heart of this fetish. Fetishism will then be located within recent theories of the ‘everyday’. Once the modernity of the text has been established, it will be analysed comparatively as a cultural icon: models for the novel’s content will be sought in postwar issues of the fashion magazine Elle. This, in turn, will lead into a discussion of a ‘fashion reading’ of L’Écume des jours, incorporating Georg Simmel’s essay of 1904. 2010-04-27T06:53:20.181Z ]]> http://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:592 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. 2010-04-27T05:39:12.959Z ]]>