| Abstrakt: |
For fifty years, journalist Janet Flanner wrote a bi-weekly "Letter from Paris" column for the New Yorker magazine. While her professional legacy included influencing American literary journalism by developing the journalistic essay, she also recorded a little-known series of radio commentaries in 1945-46 from the hotspots of Europe in the critical months surrounding the end of World War II. This article offers a detailed examination of the content and themes of those commentaries. It notes her focus on deprivations caused by the war and its aftermath, the plight of women in the war-ravaged countries, the post-war political landscape in France and Italy, and the obligation of the Allies to help rebuild France and Italy. The study concludes that her foray into radio was an important indicator of the growing significance of this medium. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
