On Both Sides of the Tracks: Social Mobility in Contemporary French Literature
Autor Morgane Cadieuen Limba Engleză Hardback – 11 ian 2024
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, Édouard Louis, and Marie NDiaye, among others, shedding fascinating light on upward mobility today as a formal, literary problem.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780226827124
ISBN-10: 0226827127
Pagini: 362
Ilustrații: 6 halftones
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10: 0226827127
Pagini: 362
Ilustrații: 6 halftones
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press
Notă biografică
Morgane Cadieu is associate professor of French at Yale University. She is the author of one book in French, Marcher au hasard: clinamen et création dans la prose du XXe siècle, and her articles and essays have appeared in publications such as Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, Comparative Literature, The Balzac Review, Fabula, and French Forum, among others.
Cuprins
Note on Citations
Introduction: The Parvenant
1 Rastignac Redux
2 The Muddy Parvenant, Then and Now
3 The Transient Body of the Transclass
4 Self-Maid? The Social Mobility of Literary and Cinematic Servants
5 A Foot in the Door: Passing on Social Mobility
6 Travel Class: From the Ladder to the Train
7 From Rastignac to Subutex: The Immobilization of the Fictional Character
Conclusion: A Demoted Canon
Acknowledgments
Notes
Works Cited
Index
Introduction: The Parvenant
1 Rastignac Redux
2 The Muddy Parvenant, Then and Now
3 The Transient Body of the Transclass
4 Self-Maid? The Social Mobility of Literary and Cinematic Servants
5 A Foot in the Door: Passing on Social Mobility
6 Travel Class: From the Ladder to the Train
7 From Rastignac to Subutex: The Immobilization of the Fictional Character
Conclusion: A Demoted Canon
Acknowledgments
Notes
Works Cited
Index
Recenzii
“Incredibly wide-ranging and rich, On Both Sides of the Tracks stands to be the definitive account of social mobility and class in contemporary French literature. Cadieu tracks the figure of the parvenant—the social climber whose climbing can never really end—as it works its way through and reshapes contemporary French literature, transforming social mobility from phenomenon into experience, one that is fundamentally rooted in language. Cadieu incites us to read these texts as closely as their authors read their own lives.”
“On Both Sides of the Tracks shows the narrative of social mobility—at a time of increased immobility—to be an intimate, if ambivalent, structure of literary fiction and nonfiction. The intimacy works both ways: the parvenant is also an uncanny figure for the reader-writer, the class-crossing ‘I’/eye imparting to reality the force of the literary. Cadieu attends exquisitely to how details, language, style, tropes, punctuation, and intertexts encode the unending effort and self-consciousness of socio-symbolic passing. One can no longer write about class and the novel without engaging with this fine work.”
“In this lucid, well-documented, and engaging text, Cadieu shows that social mobility constitutes an important frame in terms of which contemporary French society and literature can be apprehended and that the figure of the (upwardly mobile) transclass individual provides an excellent entryway into the French landscape and literary field.”