Everyday Urban Mobilities in MichÃ¨le Rakotosonâs Elle, au printemps and Alain Mabanckouâs Tais-toi et meurs

Anna-Leena Toivanen

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This chapter traces popular cosmopolitanisms in novels that portray African migrant newcomersâ urban everyday mobilities in Paris, namely MichÃ¨le Rakotosonâs Elle, au printemps (1996) and Alain Mabanckouâs Tais-toi et meurs (2012). The focus of the analysis is on the protagonistsâ use of urban public transport and the ways in which the narratives produce urban cartographies as a means of inscribing the newly arrived African migrants in the metropolis. Through their representations of the charactersâ urban mobilities the texts articulate a practical cosmopolitanism. The textsâ poetics of mobility and the protagonistsâ journeys to peripheral dead-ends convey the anxious aspects of their attempts to claim Paris as their city through mobility.

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Mobilities and Cosmopolitanisms in African and Afrodiasporic Literatures

Series:Â Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature, Volume: 95

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004444751

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 24 Feb 2021

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