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Paris and the Marginalized Author - Treachery, Alienation, Queerness, and Exile (Hardcover)
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Paris and the Marginalized Author - Treachery, Alienation, Queerness, and Exile (Hardcover)
Series: After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France
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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 Taia, 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 Le? 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.
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