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10%OFFDavid Caron - My Father and I: The Marais and the Queerness of Community - 9781501705618 - V9781501705618
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My Father and I: The Marais and the Queerness of Community

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Description for My Father and I: The Marais and the Queerness of Community Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, 58, 57 black & white halftones, 1 maps. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSB; JFSK2; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 445.

"It is a living museum of a long-gone Jewish life and, supposedly, a testimony to the success of the French model of social integration. It is a communal home where gay men and women are said to stand in defiance of the French model of social integration. It is a place of freedom and tolerance where people of color and lesbians nevertheless feel unwanted and where young Zionists from the suburbs gather every Sunday and sometimes harass Arabs. It is a hot topic in the press and on television. It is open to the world and open for business. It ... Read more

Mixing personal memoir, urban studies, cultural history, and literary criticism, as well as a generous selection of photographs, My Father and I focuses on the Marais, the oldest surviving neighborhood of Paris. It also beautifully reveals the intricacies of the relationship between a Jewish father and a gay son, each claiming the same neighborhood as his own. Beginning with the history of the Marais and its significance in the construction of a French national identity, David Caron proposes a rethinking of community and looks at how Jews, Chinese immigrants, and gays have made the Marais theirs. These communities embody, in their engagement of urban space, a daily challenge to the French concept of universal citizenship that denies them all political legitimacy.

Caron moves from the strictly French context to more theoretical issues such as social and political archaism, immigration and diaspora, survival and haunting, the public/private divide, and group friendship as metaphor for unruly and dynamic forms of community, and founding disasters such as AIDS and the Holocaust. Caron also tells the story of his father, a Hungarian Jew and Holocaust survivor who immigrated to France and once called the Marais home.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9781501705618
SKU
V9781501705618
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99-1

About David Caron
David Caron is Associate Professor of French and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan. He is the author of AIDS in French Culture: Social Ills, Literary Cures.

Reviews for My Father and I: The Marais and the Queerness of Community
A brilliant, insightful, and moving study.... A compelling combination of personal memoir, urban history, literary analysis, and critical theory.... A detailed, expansive, and ground-breaking book. In his role as one of America's leading French scholars of both Queer and Jewish identities, Caron will undoubtedly be in great demand to offer his further thoughts on these (among other) places where French ... Read more

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