Paris Is Postcolonial

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Book Review| March 01 2020 Paris Is Postcolonial: Centering the Suburbs Postcolonial Paris: Fictions of Intimacy in the City of Light, by Amine, Laila, Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2018, 256 pages, $44.95 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-299-31580-1 Maria Flood Maria Flood Maria Flood is a lecturer in film studies at Keele University. She has published widely on Francophone and world cinema and political violence. Her monograph, Screening Histories of Violence: France, Algeria, and the Moving Image, was published in 2017. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Cultural Politics (2020) 16 (1): 144–146. https://doi.org/10.1215/17432197-8017403 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Maria Flood; Paris Is Postcolonial: Centering the Suburbs. Cultural Politics 1 March 2020; 16 (1): 144–146. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/17432197-8017403 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter Books & JournalsAll JournalsCultural Politics Search Advanced Search In the wake of the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attacks in 2014, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls stated that there is a “territorial, social, and ethnic apartheid” in France (quoted in Zappi 2016). France is home to the largest North and sub-Saharan African populations in Europe, most of whom live in the geographically segregated suburbs surrounding large metropolitan areas. In the 1990s, rap, hip-hop, and acclaimed “banlieue” (suburb) films like Mathieu Kassovitz’s La haine (1995) brought the banlieues and their residents into public consciousness, in France and internationally. However, to this day, the religious, cultural, economic, and ethnic and racial differences perceived in residents of the banlieues frequently serve to exclude them from the sometimes ill-defined category of normative Frenchness. Postcolonial Paris brings the banlieues, the outer suburbs of Paris, firmly into the foreground in this excellent exploration of the cultural... © 2020 Duke University Press2020 You do not currently have access to this content.