Silk or nylon: Boris Vian, leg fetishism and the American way

Title: Silk or nylon: Boris Vian, leg fetishism and the American way
Creator: Rolls, Alistair
Relation: AUMLA: Journal of the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association Issue 103, p. 93-108
Relation: http://www.emsah.uq.edu.au/
Publisher: Australian Universities Language and Literature Association
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2005
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.
Subject: literary criticism; writers; American literature; Boris Vian; Americanization; fashion
Identifier: uon:1246
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/26946
Identifier: ISSN:0001-2793
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