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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 peek at the Parisians’ criminal activities and nocturnal lives in the nineteenth century, and witness how industrialization and capitalism between the 1850s and the 1970s reshaped the socioeconomic map of the city by creating or reinforcing spaces of social inequity. You will also meet marginalized groups that are often ignored or neglected in today’s Paris—and French society—including the LGBTQIA+, Black and immigrant communities.
Aurélie Van de Wiele received her Ph.D. in French Studies from Rice University and is currently an Associate Professor of French at Salisbury University. Her latest article examines Paris’ influence on Prévert’s social awareness and writing style (Cincinnati Romance Review).
Carole Salmon holds a Ph.D. in French Studies from Louisiana State University. She is currently a Professor of French and Linguistics at Furman University. In 2022, she published the edited volume Paris in the Americas: Yesterday and Today (Vernon Press).
Carole Salmon holds a Ph.D. in French Studies from Louisiana State University. She is currently a Professor of French and Linguistics at Furman University. In 2022, she published the edited volume Paris in the Americas: Yesterday and Today (Vernon Press).
Contents
Acknowledgments
Notes on Contributors
List of Maps
Introduction: Making the Parisian Darkness Shine
Aurélie Van de Wiele and Carole Salmon
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
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
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
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
This volume targets Francophone and Cultural Studies’ readers. It is especially relevant for anyone studying representations of Paris in French literature and cinema and for General Education courses about Diversity.