Nicole Ollier is Professeur emerita at Bordeaux Montaigne University, where she has taught American Literature, translation, gender and cultural studies. She still directs a translation workshop, mostly of poetry of minorities, including Caribbean and Japanese American poetry. Her larger Doctoral dissertation explored the ill-known field of Greek-American Literature, resorting to field-work. This research gave her access to multi- and transculturalism at large
Elia Kazan’s Greek-American family fled the Ottoman slaughters in Asia Minor by seeking refuge in America. He admitted “marrying America”. His novels keep playing with the American Dream, a tantalizing utopia, a dream realized, corrupted and forsaken, then reborn even if under an inverted shape, in Anatolia. His alter ego and anti-hero in his novels, Gatsby’s reembodiment, dwells in paradox and intersects Kazan’s autobiography. He serves and betrays his dream and is betrayed by it.
