FT-51690-03 | Research Programs: Summer Stipends | Derek Schilling | Paris on the Edge: Literature, City Planning and the Emergence of the Modern Suburb, 1918-1940 | 6/1/2003 - 7/31/2003 | $5,000.00 | Derek | | Schilling | | | | Rutgers University | New Brunswick | NJ | 08901-8559 | USA | 2003 | French Literature | Summer Stipends | Research Programs | 5000 | 0 | 5000 | 0 |
How does literary discourse participate in the creation of collective perceptions of lived space? This project delves into the literary imaginary of interwar Paris (1918-1940) to examine the genesis of modern discourses on the suburb in France as a site of marginalization, poverty, and segregation, but also as a realm of simple pleasures and semi-rural life. I will argue that around 1930, literary interest in the urban fringe in the works of CĂ©line, Cendras, Queneau and others corresponded not only to the ideological value of the suburbs as the habitat of the working classes. but also to a growing collective consciousnes of the changing physical limits of the capital, fueled by the discourse of rational city planning. |