Marginal Paris : Representing the Shadows of the City of Light /
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 pe...
Other Authors: ,
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published:
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2025.
Series:
Francopolyphonies ;
35.
Literature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2025.
Subjects:
Online Access: Login to view Source
Tags: Add Tag
Call Number: PQ145.7.F8
- 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.