TY  - BOOK
AU  - Amine,Laila
TI  - Postcolonial Paris: fictions of intimacy in the City of Light
T2  - Africa and the diaspora: history, politics, culture
SN  - 9780299315801
AV  - PQ150.N67 
U1  - 840.9/35844361 23
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - Madison, Wisconsin, London
PB  - The University of Wisconsin Press
KW  - French literature
KW  - France
KW  - Paris
KW  - North African authors
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - African American authors
KW  - Postcolonialism in literature
KW  - Paris (France)
KW  - In literature
KW  - Class of Fall 2020
KW  - Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in the Humanities
KW  - Fellow
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-220) and index
N2  - 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
ER  -