Donner un visage : la difficile rencontre avec le peuple banlieusard
Year: 2023
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: At the beginning of the 20th century, several novelists consider “relocating” their plots to the Parisian suburbs: It is, among other things, to meet a certain population, this new proletariat emerging at the same time as this space marked by geographical and urban indeterminacy, but also by great social misery. While the escapade in the green suburbs paid almost no attention to the local inhabitants, all tended towards the entertainment of the Parisians, the incursion into the industrial suburbs lingers on those who are forced to live and work there, in an unchosen exile. By anchoring their plots in the suburbs, these writers replace the indistinct mass of miserable people with singular faces, embodiments of destinies burdened by the full weight of social relegation. By making the invisible the object of stories, they give body to the people.
Author: Aurore Peyroles
Language: French
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
OpenAlex ID: W4390230673