Globalized Parisian Spaces Disability and Mobility in The Untouchables (2011)
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| Publication date | 2018 |
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| Book title | South and North |
| Book subtitle | Contemporary Urban Orientations |
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| Series | Literary cultures of the global south |
| Chapter | 10 |
| Pages (from-to) | 181-197 |
| Number of pages | 17 |
| Publisher | London: Routledge |
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| Abstract | In the film Intouchables (Nakache/Toledano, 2011), a stereotypical banlieue youth of African origin encounters a paralyzed white aristocrat who lives in wealthy neighbourhood in Paris. I read the comedy that ensues as a theatre of complicated comparisons between various forms of disenabling and re-enabling mapping strategies. At the intersection between social class, racialization, cultural capital and physical disability, a map of Paris emerges that rethinks and critiques the notion of access and borders between and within cities, the North and the South. |
| Document type | Chapter |
| Language | English |
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https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351047043-10
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