Sorbonne -  march11. 2011  

Paris is often percieved to be a friendly city for artists and writers from around the world. So much so that they adopted it this destination as a kind of literary cosmopolitan homeland. Yet in the past, many French writers and artists who settled temporarily or permanently in Paris centered on the City of Lights took on a different view. They came from Quebec, Switzerland, the Caribbean, Africa or elsewhere. Paris often generated in them a paradoxical feeling of exile more acute than that is felt by immigrants who do not speak the French language.

Hence a series of questions:

*The French American, European and African are they more likely to live in "exile" in Paris? What are effects of sharing a common language - but with many differing accents?

*Are French writers best placed to reveal the cultual exclusivity of the City of Light?

*What symbolic power struggles underlie the willingness of writers to be recognized in Paris?

*Is there a distrust of Parisian literary writers to amongst French from other parts of the world?

*What Paris has been imagined when compared with reality of living the French way?

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Inaugural conference:

Régine Robin, University from Quebec in Montreal, “does one never Return at home ?”

I. Paris Distance

Claire Riffard, ITEM / CNRS, "Capital perfect" walk in the Parisian journal and correspondence of JJ Rabearivelo (1903-1937) "(picture book)

Mireille Calle-Gruber, University Paris 3: "Scriptures fugitive Assia Djebar between Algiers and Paris"

Jean-Philippe Warren - Concordia University, "Returns to Europe"

II. Paris impossible?

Dominique Combe, ENS Paris: "The failure of the Paris Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz"

Muresanu M. Ionescu, University of Iasi, Romania: "The Paris of Eugene Ionesco: hell or heaven? "

Sylvain Briens, University of Paris 4: "Paris, a place of exile and the scene of hell in the French work by August Strindberg. "

III. Paris offset

Xavier Garnier, Université Paris 3: "Negroes Tourists in Paris: a paradox colonial"

Mark Kober, University Paris 13: "Migratory birds do they stop in Paris? " About Tawfiq El Hakim, L'Oiseau d'Orient, Ed Horus, 1941.