Paris and the Marginalized Author (eBook)

Treachery, Alienation, Queerness, and Exile

Valerie K. Orlando, Pamela A. Pears (Herausgeber)

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2018
234 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-6704-6 (ISBN)

Infos

This volume explores what it is that has brought marginalized writers together by way of Paris. Spanning from the inter-war period to the present millennium, we consider the questions that have influenced and continue to shape the realm of exiled writers who have sought refuge in Paris in order to write.

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This volume of essays explores what it is that has brought marginalized and often exiled writers, seen as treacherous, alienated, and/or queer by their societies and nations together by way of Paris. Spanning from the inter-war period of the late 1920s to the present millennium, this volume considers many seminal questions that have influenced and continue to shape the realm of exiled writers who have sought refuge in Paris in order to write. Additionally, the volume's essays seek to define alienation and marginalization as not solely subscribing to any single denominator -- sexual preference, gender, or nationality-- but rather as shared modes of being that allow authors to explore what it is to write from abroad in a place that is foreign yet freed of the constrictions of one's home space. What makes Paris a particularly fruitful space that has allowed these authors and their writings to cross national, ethnic, racial, religious, and linguistic boundaries for over a century? What is it that brings together writers such as Moroccan Abdellah Taa, Americans James Baldwin, Richard Wright and, most recently, Ta-Nehisi Coates and Shay Youngblood, Algerian Nabile Fares, Franco-Algerian Leila Sebbar, Canadian Nancy Huston, French Jean Genet and French-Vietnamese Linda L? How do their representations and understanding of transgression and marginalization transcend national, linguistic and ethnic boundaries, leading ultimately to revolution, both literary and literal? How does their writing help us to trace the history of Paris as a literary and artistic capital that has been useful for authors' exploration of the Self, race and home country? These are but a few of the many questions explored in this volume. This book relies on an inherently intersectional approach, which is not based in reified identities, whether they be LGBT, postcolonial, ethnic, national, or linguistic. Instead, we posit that, for example, queer theory, and a ';politics of difference'i can help us investigate the dynamics of these multiple identity positions, and hence provide a broader understanding of the lived experiences of these writers, and, perhaps, their readers from the early 1940s to the present.

Autor

Valérie K. Orlando is professor of French and Francophone literatures in the Department of French & Italian at the University of Maryland, College Park.Pamela A. Pears is professor of French at Washington College.

Inhalt

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Paris and the Marginalized Author: Treachery, Alienation, Queerness and ExileValérie K. Orlando and Pamela A. PearsPart I: 1919–1950s : From the Parisian Harlem Renaissance to the Beginning of “The 30 Glorieuses”Chapter 1: Gwendolyn Bennett and Her Paris IdyllT. Denean Sharpley-WhitingChapter 2: From Alienation to Activism: Richard Wright, Jean Genet, and the Black PanthersPamela A. PearsPart II: 1960s-1970s: The Algerian War, Identity Politics and Postcolonial ImmigrationChapter 3: A Mexican in Paris from the 1940s to Algerian Independence: Elena Garro’s Testimonios sobre Mariana, Reencuentro de personajes, Mi hermanita MagdalenaSandra Messinger CypessChapter 4: No Name in the Street for Passengers in the West: Nabile Farès, James Baldwin, and Conversations of AlienationValérie K. OrlandoChapter 5: No More Eden: The Place of Diasporic Encounters in Paris Noir FictionLaila AminePart III: 1980s-1990s: Intersectional feminism, Capitalist Globalization and la francophonie, writ large? Chapter 6: De rive en rive: Exile, Space, and Memory in Nancy Huston’s L’empreinte de l’angeAparna NayakChapter 7: Packing an Epistolary Punch: Nancy Huston and Leïla Sebbar’s Parisian Proximities in Lettres parisiennes: Autopsie de l’exilAlison RiceChapter 8 : Sur les pas de Linda Lê: Paris, Exilic HeterotopiaLeslie BarnesPart IV: 2000s: The New Millennium: Transnationalism, Conversations beyond FranceChapter 9: The Right to Paris: Migrants’ Narratives in Shay Youngblood’s Black Girl in Paris and Évelyne Trouillot’s La Mémoire aux aboisNorrell EdwardsChapter 10: The Place of Paris in Vietnamese Diasporic FictionKarl Ashoka BrittoChapter 11 : “ Je suis terroriste, pédé et le fils de Marilyn Monroe”: Cinematic Stars, Strife, and Queer Filiation in Abdellah Taïa’s Infidèles (2012)Denis M. ProvencherChapter 12: Louis-Philippe Dalembert and the Haitian Intellectual Tradition in ParisFélix GermainChapter 13: Bernardo Toro: Beyond Lieux CommunsLaura ReeckBibliographyAbout the Contributors

Produkt-Details

• Reihe/Serie: After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France
• Co-Autor: Laila Amine, Denis M. Provencher, Laura Reeck, Alison Rice, T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, Leslie Barnes, Karl Ashoka Britto, Sandra Messinger Cypess, Norrell Edwards, Felix Germain, Aparna Nayak, Valerie K. Orlando, Pamela A. Pears
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: african american writers • Black Studies • Cultural Studies • Francophone studies • French Studies • Immigration studies • Parisian writers • Postcolonial France
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-6704-5 / 1498567045
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-6704-6 / 9781498567046