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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.
List of contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Paris and the Marginalized Author: Treachery, Alienation, Queerness and Exile
Valérie K. Orlando and Pamela A. Pears
Part I: 1919-1950s : From the Parisian Harlem Renaissance to the Beginning of "The 30 Glorieuses"
Chapter 1: Gwendolyn Bennett and Her Paris Idyll
T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting
Chapter 2: From Alienation to Activism: Richard Wright, Jean Genet, and the Black Panthers
Pamela A. Pears
Part II: 1960s-1970s: The Algerian War, Identity Politics and Postcolonial Immigration
Chapter 3: A Mexican in Paris from the 1940s to Algerian Independence: Elena Garro's Testimonios sobre Mariana, Reencuentro de personajes, Mi hermanita Magdalena
Sandra Messinger Cypess
Chapter 4: No Name in the Street for Passengers in the West: Nabile Farès, James Baldwin, and Conversations of Alienation
Valérie K. Orlando
Chapter 5: No More Eden: The Place of Diasporic Encounters in Paris Noir Fiction
Laila Amine
Part III: 1980s-1990s: Intersectional feminism, Capitalist Globalization and la francophonie, writ large?
Chapter 6: De rive en rive: Exile, Space, and Memory in Nancy Huston's L'empreinte de l'ange
Aparna Nayak
Chapter 7: Packing an Epistolary Punch: Nancy Huston and Leïla Sebbar's Parisian Proximities in Lettres parisiennes: Autopsie de l'exil
Alison Rice
Chapter 8 : Sur les pas de Linda Lê: Paris, Exilic Heterotopia
Leslie Barnes
Part IV: 2000s: The New Millennium: Transnationalism, Conversations beyond France
Chapter 9: The Right to Paris: Migrants' Narratives in Shay Youngblood's Black Girl in Paris and Évelyne Trouillot's La Mémoire aux abois
Norrell Edwards
Chapter 10: The Place of Paris in Vietnamese Diasporic Fiction
Karl Ashoka Britto
Chapter 11 : " Je suis terroriste, pédé et le fils de Marilyn Monroe": Cinematic Stars, Strife, and Queer Filiation in Abdellah Taïa's Infidèles (2012)
Denis M. Provencher
Chapter 12: Louis-Philippe Dalembert and the Haitian Intellectual Tradition in Paris
Félix Germain
Chapter 13: Bernardo Toro: Beyond Lieux Communs
Laura Reeck
Bibliography
About the Contributors
About the author
Valérie K. Orlando is professor of French and Francophone literatures in the Department of French & Italian at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Pamela A. Pears is professor of French at Washington College.
Summary
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.
