Binding: Paperback
Description: An analysis of social mobility in contemporary French literature that offers a new perspective on figures who move between social classes. Social climbers have often been the core characters of novels. Their position between traditional tiers in society makes them touchstones for any political and literary moment including our own. Morgane Cadieu's study looks at a certain kind of social climber in contemporary French literature whom she calls the parvenant. Taken from the French term parvenu which refers to one who is newly arrived a parvenant is a character who shuttles between social groups. A parvenant may become part of a new social class but devises literary ways to come back constantly undoing any fixed idea of social affiliation. Focusing on recent French novels and autobiographies On Both Sides of the Tracks speaks powerfully to issues of emancipation and class. Cadieu offers a fresh critical look at tales of social mobility in the work of Annie Ernaux Kaoutar Harchi Michel Houellebecq douard Louis and Marie N Diaye among others shedding fascinating light on upward mobility today as a formal literary problem.
Title: On Both Sides Of The Tracks Social Mobility In Contemporary French Literature
Author(s): Cadieu Morgane
Publisher: The University Of Chicago Press
Barcode: 9780226830360
Pages: 320 Pages, 6 Halftones
Publication Date: 1/9/2024
Category: Education