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30 janvier 2024
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Nathalie Dessens et al., « Foreword », Anglophonia Caliban/Sigma, ID : 10.4000/caliban.347
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In 1782, when the republic of the United States of America was still in the process of being formed, a French immigrant to the new nation tried to define what it meant to be an American. If Americans reread his Letters From an American Farmer again and again, it is not so much because J. Hector St. John De Crèvecoeur resolved the question, as because it has remained pertinent for each generation of citizens: What then is the American, this new man?... He is an American, who, leaving behind h...