Black Like Boris: Boris Vian's Fictions of Identity in Post-World War II Paris

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2003
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Haverford College. Department of History
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The History Department Senior Thesis Prize
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For my senior History thesis, I researched Boris Vian, a prominent figure in the post-World War II Paris intellectual scene. Vian is also significant in his relationships with and responses to both the African-American and African expatriate communities in Paris. In 1947, he wrote a novel, J'irai Cracher Sur Vos Tombes ["I Will Spit on Your Graves"] under the pseudonym of an imaginary African-American man, Vernon Sullivan. Through this piece, his prolific jazz criticism, and essays for a Parisian journal, Vian provides a fascinating counterpoint to the normative ways in which white Americans and Parisians responded to blackness
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