How has fictional writing served as a vehicle for the representation and processing of France's complex colonial legacy? To what extent has fiction enabled the surfacing of unacknowledged or contested events within the city of Paris, and how has the city served as an active component in the telling of this history, emerging in these texts and films as more than a mere backdrop to 'politics' and/or 'immigrants'? This course addresses these questions through fictional readings and site-based study. Three main forms of fiction have been chosen, which will be associated primarily with three sites, though the resonance of these books will work across all of the sites explored: crime fiction and The Palais dorée, previously the Pavillon des Colonies and more recently converted in part into the Immigration Museum; postcolonial novels of neighbourhood life and the Goutte d'Or; women's cinema of the 'banlieue' and the town of Bobigny (Seine-Saint Denis).

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