Abstract:This article is intended to be a critical reflection on a rather particular literary expression, known as "banlieue literature". In spite of its emerging in France, this literature struggles to find a place in the French literary landscape. In this contribution, the intention is to explain why these so-called "banlieue" writings remain marginal. Why these literatures, although produced in France and by French authors, still remain catalogued on the basis of an ethnic or spatial logic and still do not manage to… Show more
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