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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828038403321

Titolo

Paris and the marginalized author : treachery, alienation, queerness, and exile / / edited by Valérie K. Orlando and Pamela A. Pears

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham : , : Lexington Books, , [2019]

©2019

ISBN

1-4985-6704-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (214 pages)

Collana

After the empire : the Francophone world and postcolonial France

Disciplina

809/.89206910944361

Soggetti

Expatriate authors - France - Paris - Intellectual life - 20th century

Paris (France) Intellectual life 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Part I: 1919-1950s: From the Parisian Harlem Renaissance to the Beginning of "The 30 Glorieuses" -- Part II: 1960s-1970s: The Algerian War, Identity Politics and Postcolonial Immigration -- Part III: 1980s-1990s: Intersectional feminism, Capitalist Globalization and La Francophonie, writ large? -- Part IV: 2000s: The New Millennium: Transnationalism, conversations beyond France.

Sommario/riassunto

"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"--