Nationality as intersectional storytelling : inventing the 'Parisienne'

  • Nationality traditionally is one of imagology's key terms. In this article, I propose an intersectional understanding of this category, conceiving nationality as an interdependent dynamic. I thus conclude it to be always internally constructed by notions of gender, sexuality, race, class, religion, age, ability, and other identity categories. This complex and multi-layered construct, I argue, is formed narratively. To exemplify this, I analyse practices of stereotyping in Honoré de Balzac's "Illusions perdues" (1843) and Henry James's "The American" (1877) which construct the so-called 'Parisienne' as a synecdoche for nineteenth-century France.

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Author:Maria WeilandtGND
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-710611
URL:https://brill.com/downloadpdf/book/9789004513150/BP000025.pdf
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004513150_016
ISBN:978-90-04-51315-0
ISBN:978-90-04-45012-7
ISSN:0927-4065
Parent Title (English):New perspectives on imagology / edited by Katharina Edtstadler, Sandra Folie and Gianna Zocco ; Studia Imagologica ; 30
Publisher:Brill
Place of publication:Leiden ; Boston
Document Type:Part of a Book
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2024/04/08
Year of first Publication:2022
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2024/04/08
Tag:Intersectionality
Parisienne
GND Keyword:Balzac, Honoré de; Illusions perdues; James, Henry; The American; Paris; Frau <Motiv>; Intersektionalität
Page Number:19
First Page:297
Last Page:311
Dewey Decimal Classification:8 Literatur / 80 Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft / 800 Literatur und Rhetorik
8 Literatur / 81 Amerikanische Literatur in Englisch / 810 Amerikanische Literatur in Englisch
8 Literatur / 84 Französische und verwandte Literaturen / 840 Literaturen romanischer Sprachen; Französische Literatur
Sammlungen:CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft / Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, Berlin
Licence (German):License LogoCreative Commons - CC BY-NC - Namensnennung - Nicht kommerziell 4.0 International