Postcolonial Paris fictions of intimacy in the City of Light
Amine, Laila
Postcolonial Paris fictions of intimacy in the City of Light Laila Amine - xi, 241 Seiten Illustrationen 24 cm - Africa and the diaspora: history, politics, culture .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-220) and index
In the global imagination, Paris is the city's glamorous center, ignoring the Muslim residents in its outskirts except in moments of spectacular crisis such as terrorist attacks or riots. But colonial immigrants and their French offspring have been a significant presence in the Parisian landscape since the 1940s. Expanding the narrow script of what and who is Paris, Laila Amine explores the novels, films, and street art of Maghrebis, Franco-Arabs, and African Americans in the City of Light, including fiction by Charef, Charibi, Guène, Sebbar, Baldwin, Smith, and Wright, and such films as La haine, Made in France, Vivre me tue, and Nuit d'Octobre. Spanning the decades from the post-World War II era to the present day, Amine demonstrates that the postcolonial other is both peripheral to and intimately entangled with all the ideals so famously evoked by the French capital--romance, modernity, equality, and liberty. In their work, postcolonial writers and artists have juxtaposed these ideals with colonial tropes of intimacy (the interracial couple, the harem, the Arab queer) to expose their hidden violence. Amine highlights the intrusion of race in everyday life in a nation where, officially, it does not exist
9780299315801 : hardcover
2017044982
French literature--North African authors--History and criticism--France--Paris
African American authors--France--Paris
Postcolonialism in literature
Paris (France)--In literature
Class of Fall 2020 Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in the Humanities Fellow
PQ150.N67
840.9/35844361
Postcolonial Paris fictions of intimacy in the City of Light Laila Amine - xi, 241 Seiten Illustrationen 24 cm - Africa and the diaspora: history, politics, culture .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-220) and index
In the global imagination, Paris is the city's glamorous center, ignoring the Muslim residents in its outskirts except in moments of spectacular crisis such as terrorist attacks or riots. But colonial immigrants and their French offspring have been a significant presence in the Parisian landscape since the 1940s. Expanding the narrow script of what and who is Paris, Laila Amine explores the novels, films, and street art of Maghrebis, Franco-Arabs, and African Americans in the City of Light, including fiction by Charef, Charibi, Guène, Sebbar, Baldwin, Smith, and Wright, and such films as La haine, Made in France, Vivre me tue, and Nuit d'Octobre. Spanning the decades from the post-World War II era to the present day, Amine demonstrates that the postcolonial other is both peripheral to and intimately entangled with all the ideals so famously evoked by the French capital--romance, modernity, equality, and liberty. In their work, postcolonial writers and artists have juxtaposed these ideals with colonial tropes of intimacy (the interracial couple, the harem, the Arab queer) to expose their hidden violence. Amine highlights the intrusion of race in everyday life in a nation where, officially, it does not exist
9780299315801 : hardcover
2017044982
French literature--North African authors--History and criticism--France--Paris
African American authors--France--Paris
Postcolonialism in literature
Paris (France)--In literature
Class of Fall 2020 Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in the Humanities Fellow
PQ150.N67
840.9/35844361