Marginal Paris
Representing the Shadows of the City of Light
Published on 5. September 2024
Book
Hardback
228 pages
978-90-04-51761-5 (ISBN)
Description
This volume invites you to wander through the shadows of the City of Light and discover another, often invisible and silent Paris. Its chapters explore Parisian margins, including various populations, spaces and practices, as represented in French literature and cinema since 1800. You will take a peek at the Parisians' criminal activities and nocturnal lives in the nineteenth century, and witness how industrialization and capitalism between the 1850s and the 1970s reshaped the socioeconomic map of the city by creating or reinforcing spaces of social inequity. You will also meet marginalized groups that are often ignored or neglected in today's Paris-and French society-including the LGBTQIA+, Black and immigrant communities.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 260 mm
Width: 158 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
399 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-51761-5 (9789004517615)
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Persons
Aurelie Van de Wiele received her Ph.D. in French Studies from Rice University and is currently an Associate Professor of French at Salisbury University. Her latest article examines Paris' influence on Prevert's social awareness and writing style (Cincinnati Romance Review).
Carole Salmon holds a Ph.D. in French Studies from Louisiana State University. She is currently a Professor of French and Linguistics at Furman University. In 2022, she published the edited volume Paris in the Americas: Yesterday and Today (Vernon Press).
Carole Salmon holds a Ph.D. in French Studies from Louisiana State University. She is currently a Professor of French and Linguistics at Furman University. In 2022, she published the edited volume Paris in the Americas: Yesterday and Today (Vernon Press).
Content
Contents
Acknowledgments
Notes on Contributors
List of Maps
Introduction: Making the Parisian Darkness Shine
?Aurelie Van de Wiele and Carole Salmon
Part 1: 1800s-1850s
1 Ultraviolent Thirdspace in Les Mysteres de Paris
?Eliza Jane Smith
2 Hidden Figures: Women Writing the July Monarchy Night
?Charlotte Berkery
3 Honore de Balzac, "observateur poete" of the Parisian Gutter
?Celine Duverne
Part 2: 1850s-1970s
4 Representations of the Banlieue in Emile Zola's Rougon-Macquart
?Isabelle Schaffner
5 The Rosny Brothers' Paris in the Shadows of the Fortifs
?Noemie Boeglin
6 Poetics of the Parisian Underclass in the Works of Baudelaire and Prevert
?Aurelie Van de Wiele
Part 3: 1990s-Today
7 Dustan's Ghetto: Paris and the Marais as Loci of Extremes
?Olivier Le Blond
8 Paris "Taule de Merde": Yemy's Neocanonical French Literature
?David Spieser-Landes
9 Giving a Voice to Sex Workers in Au coeur du bois (Drexel, 2021)
?Levilson Reis
Index
Acknowledgments
Notes on Contributors
List of Maps
Introduction: Making the Parisian Darkness Shine
?Aurelie Van de Wiele and Carole Salmon
Part 1: 1800s-1850s
1 Ultraviolent Thirdspace in Les Mysteres de Paris
?Eliza Jane Smith
2 Hidden Figures: Women Writing the July Monarchy Night
?Charlotte Berkery
3 Honore de Balzac, "observateur poete" of the Parisian Gutter
?Celine Duverne
Part 2: 1850s-1970s
4 Representations of the Banlieue in Emile Zola's Rougon-Macquart
?Isabelle Schaffner
5 The Rosny Brothers' Paris in the Shadows of the Fortifs
?Noemie Boeglin
6 Poetics of the Parisian Underclass in the Works of Baudelaire and Prevert
?Aurelie Van de Wiele
Part 3: 1990s-Today
7 Dustan's Ghetto: Paris and the Marais as Loci of Extremes
?Olivier Le Blond
8 Paris "Taule de Merde": Yemy's Neocanonical French Literature
?David Spieser-Landes
9 Giving a Voice to Sex Workers in Au coeur du bois (Drexel, 2021)
?Levilson Reis
Index