Extraordinary, ordinary women : questions of expatriate identity in contemporary American Paris /

A portrait of twenty American expatriate women currently residing in Paris that examines the consequences of immigration, biculturalism and assimilation on the individual identities of modern expatriate women.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Rogers, Kelly M. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Lanham, Mayrland : University Press of America, [2014]
Subjects:	Americans > France > Paris > History > 21st century. Women > France > Paris. Identity (Psychology) Paris (France) > Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.

Table of Contents:

Introduction : chasing Sabrina
Who do you think you are? : questions of identity
Defining an "American" Paris
The research : meeting Americans in Paris
The parable of the letter jacket
Modes of exodus : transplantation, expatriation, exile
The problematic second person : learning and speaking French
Madame la Maîtresse d'Anglais : working in France
Conclusion : being Julia Boit.