Regard de James Baldwin, écrivain noir américain et citoyen du monde, sur les Algériens de Belleville dans les années 1950
The now-famous African American novelist and essay writer James Baldwin (1924-1987) pursued on the European continent his identity quest and his questioning on the meaning of citizenship, be it American or cosmopolitan. He spent two long stays in Paris, first from 1948 to 1952, then from 1953 to 195...
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| Language: | English |
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Institut Pluridisciplinaire pour les Etudes sur l'Amérique Latine
2017-12-01
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| Series: | L'Ordinaire des Amériques |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/orda/3705 |
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| Summary: | The now-famous African American novelist and essay writer James Baldwin (1924-1987) pursued on the European continent his identity quest and his questioning on the meaning of citizenship, be it American or cosmopolitan. He spent two long stays in Paris, first from 1948 to 1952, then from 1953 to 1957, following a brief stay in New York City during the McCarthy witch-hunts. During each of these four-year periods, he shared the conditions of Algerian migrants living in Belleville, an impoverished district of Paris. He compared their situation as second-class French citizens scraping a living in the mother country with that of his own native Harlem ghetto. His observations on racial prejudices, attachment to home culture, and the foregone demise of the French colonial empire in turn gave him new keys to analyze the rise of the Civil Rights Movement back home in the USA, and choose to take an active part in its quest for recognition. |
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| ISSN: | 2273-0095 |