Postcolonial Paris - Fictions of Intimacy in the City of Light

Informationen zum Autor Laila Amine is an assistant professor of English at the University of North Texas. She was born and grew up in France. Klappentext Expanding the narrow script of what it means to be Parisian, Laila Amine explores the novels, films, and street art made by Maghrebis, Franco-Arabs, and African Americans, including fiction by Charef, Chraïbi, Sebbar, Baldwin, Smith, and Wright, and such films as La haine , Made in France , Chouchou , and A Son . Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Laila Amine
• Publisher: The University of Wisconsin Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2018
• EAN: 9780299315801
• ISBN: 978-0-299-31580-1
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Africa and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture; Africa and the Diaspora: Histo; Africa and the Diaspora: Histo
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Comparative and international political science