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Postcolonial Paris - Fictions of Intimacy in the City of Light (Hardcover)
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Postcolonial Paris - Fictions of Intimacy in the City of Light (Hardcover)
Series: Africa and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture
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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, Chraibi, Sebbar, Baldwin, Smith, and Wright, and such films
as La haine, Made in France, Chouchou, and A Son. 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.
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