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02586aam a22003498i 4500 001 20071B1ADABF11EEBE8532184BECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240305010131 008 230512s2024 ilu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2023023145 020 $a 0226830365 020 $a 9780226830360 020 $a 0226827127 020 $a 9780226827124 035 $a (OCoLC)1372132408 040 $a ICU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d ERASA $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PQ630 C33 2024 100 1 $a Cadieu, Morgane, $e author. 245 10 $a On both sides of the tracks : $b social mobility in contemporary French literature / $c Morgane Cadieu. 264 1 $a Chicago : $b The University of Chicago Press, $c 2024. 300 $a pages cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: The Parvenant -- Rastignac Redux -- The Muddy Parvenant, Then and Now -- The Transient Body of the Transclass -- Self-Maid? The Social Mobility of Literary and Cinematic Servants -- A Foot in the Door: Passing on Social Mobility -- Travel Class: From the Ladder to the Train -- From Rastignac to Subutex: The Immobilization of the Fictional Character -- Conclusion: A Demoted Canon. 520 $a "Social climbers have often been the core characters of novels. Their position between traditional tiers in society makes them a touchstone for any political and literary moment, including our own. Morgane Cadieu's study looks at a certain kind of contemporary social climber in French literature whom she calls the parvenant. Taken from the French term parvenu, which refers to one who is newly arrived, a parvenant is a character who shuttles between social groups. A parvenant may reach the level of another social class, but devises literary ways to come back, constantly undoing any fixed ideas of social affiliation. Focusing on recent French novels and autobiographies, On Both Sides of the Tracks speaks powerfully to issues of emancipation and class. Cadieu offers a fresh, critical look at tales of upward mobility in the work of Annie Ernaux, Kaoutar Harchi, Michel Houellebecq, EÌdouard Louis, and Marie NDiaye, shedding fascinating light on social mobility today as a formal, literary problem"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a French fiction $y 21st century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Social mobility in literature. 941 $a 2 952 $l USUX851 $d 20240502013600.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20240417025622.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=20071B1ADABF11EEBE8532184BECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search