Paris and the Marginalized Author : Treachery, Alienation, Queerness, and Exile.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (236 pages)
- After the Empire: the Francophone World and Postcolonial France Series .
- After the Empire: the Francophone World and Postcolonial France Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Paris and the Marginalized Author -- I: 1919-1950s: From the Parisian Harlem Renaissance to the Beginning of "The 30 Glorieuses" -- 1 Gwendolyn Bennett and Her Paris Idyll -- 2 From Alienation to Activism -- II: 1960s-1970s: The Algerian War, Identity Politics, and Postcolonial Immigration -- 3 A Mexican in Paris from the 1940s to Algerian Independence -- 4 No Name in the Street for Passengers in the West -- 5 No More Eden -- III: 1980s-1990s: Intersectional Feminism, Capitalist Globalization, and la Francophonie, Writ Large? -- 6 De rive en rive -- 7 Packing an Epistolary Punch -- 8 Sur les pas de Linda Lê -- IV: 2000s: The New Millennium -- Transnationalism, Conversations beyond France -- 9 The Right to Paris -- 10 The Place of Paris in Vietnamese Diasporic Fiction -- 11 "Je suis terroriste, pédé et le fils de Marilyn Monroe" -- 12 Louis-Philippe Dalembert and the Haitian Intellectual Tradition in Paris -- 13 Bernardo Toro -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Contributors.
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.