Becoming Americans
Giuseppe Antonio Borgese and Klaus Mann
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https://doi.org/10.4454/syn.v5.1199Keywords:
Giuseppe Antonio Borgese, Klaus Mann, . U.S. History, American Literature, AntifascismAbstract
This paper focuses on the process of Americanisation experienced by Klaus Mann and his brother-in-law Giuseppe Antonio Borgese. The study stems from the rediscovery of their correspondence, an English-written corpus that sheds new light on the phenomenon of assimilation to U.S. language and culture carried out by several antifascist émigrés. The analysis investigates some of the milestones of their unlikely friendship: namely, the debunking of European stereotypes, the creation of a Euro-American magazine (Decision, 1941-1942), and their interpretation of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass.
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