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The Lost Generation in Paris: American Expatriates and Counter/Cultural Construction Thursday, November 6
Paris in the 1920’s was home to some of the finest young American writers, among them Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, Djuna Barnes, Ezra Pound and Langston Hughes. In Left Bank bars and cafes and in Sylvia Beach’s Shakespeare and Co. bookstore, these writers and their friends created a community that both embraced and resisted its own American roots. With influences as diverse as cubism and communism, the rise of fascism and the growing influence of jazz music, they explored together what it means to be an expatriate and how, as Stein famously stated, “We are all a lost generation."
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