{"id":1848,"date":"2011-04-04T15:55:58","date_gmt":"2011-04-04T22:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2011\/04\/the_french_connection\/"},"modified":"2011-04-04T15:55:58","modified_gmt":"2011-04-04T22:55:58","slug":"the_french_connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2011\/04\/the_french_connection.html","title":{"rendered":"The French Connection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the poster &#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/Columbia%20Poster%28480%29.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt title=\"Oliver Harris, president of the European Beat Studies Network and Professor of American Literature at Keele University in the U.K.,  is the leading scholar and critic on the work of William Burroughs. His new projects include the co-written book 'French Writers of the Beat Generation.'\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/assets_c\/2011\/04\/Columbia Poster(480)-thumb-480x340-19620.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"340\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nAnd here&#8217;s what the poster says &#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Beat writers have been photogenic icons of American dissent, while their opposition to Cold War Americanism was crucially mediated by trans-national affiliations. In this context, the French Connection was fundamental, and Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Burroughs should all be recognized as Francophiles. Indeed, their identifications with French writers played a central if surprising role in defining their individual visions, as a reappraisal of recent Beat photographic history reveals.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the poster &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1848","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-tO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}