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My American Uncle, America Cries Uncle, And Other Fantastic Tales From France: Iegor Gran's Jeanne D'Arc Fait Tic-Tac, Carolyn A. Durham

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Ella Shohat and Robert Stam's proposal that beliefs about nations often crystallize in the form of stories could serve as both summary and generative matrix for Jeanne d'Arc fait tic-tac. In keeping with a number of recent fictional works united by the attempt to understand French and American cultures in a comparative context, the first part of Iegor Gran's clever 2005 novel consists of eleven stories whose common focus on the danger represented by American culture for French national identity makes the second part of the novel, in which France declares war and invades the United States, almost inevitable. …