"A Counterproposal to French Surrealism: Transition's American Surrealist Experimentations (Murray Godwin, Nathanael West, William Carlos Williams, and others)"

Abstract : American Surrealism is still mainly associated today with the visual arts (through passing figures such as Julien Levy, James Johnson Sweeney and Alfred H. Barr) or with the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s – and the creation of an American surrealist group in Chicago. However, American Surrealist literary experimentations did exist in the 1920s and 1930s. Many of them appeared in transition, the American expatriate magazine published in Paris between 1927 and 1938.