Marginal Paris

Representing the Shadows of the City of Light
Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-90-04-51761-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 35, 216 Seiten, Format (B × H): 158 mm x 260 mm, Gewicht: 399 g

Reihe: Francopolyphonies

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Van de Wiele, Aurélie

Salmon, Carole

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Französische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Acknowledgments

Notes on Contributors

List of Maps

Introduction: Making the Parisian Darkness Shine

Aurélie Van de Wiele and Carole Salmon

Part 1: 1800s–1850s

1 Ultraviolent Thirdspace in Les Mystères de Paris

Eliza Jane Smith

2 Hidden Figures: Women Writing the July Monarchy Night

Charlotte Berkery

3 Honoré de Balzac, “observateur poète” of the Parisian Gutter

Céline Duverne

Part 2: 1850s–1970s

4 Representations of the Banlieue in Émile Zola’s Rougon-Macquart

Isabelle Schaffner

5 The Rosny Brothers’ Paris in the Shadows of the Fortifs

Noémie Boeglin

6 Poetics of the Parisian Underclass in the Works of Baudelaire and Prévert

Aurélie 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”: Yémy’s Neocanonical French Literature

David Spieser-Landes

9 Giving a Voice to Sex Workers in Au cœur du bois (Drexel, 2021)

Levilson Reis

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Aurélie 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 Prévert’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).