Parades banlieusardes. El Hadj de Mamadou Mahmoud N’Dongo et les identités criminelles

Authors

Hervé Tchumkam, Southern Methodist University

Abstract

This article aims at understanding the relation between crime and identity formations in the French banlieues, especially in the wake of the 2005 urban riots. The essay performs a reading Mamadou N’Dongo’s novel El Hadj at the intersection of aesthetics and politics in order to scrutinize identity formations and related debates at stake in the prisons of poverty and oppression that constitute the banlieues whose inhabitants are the third or fourth generation of the heirs to African immigration in France. Ultimately, the paper contention is that what I call “banlieue parade” stands out as the new model of identity that characterizes the second-class citizens of the banlieues, as they are caught between exclusion and inclusion.

Recommended Citation

Tchumkam, Hervé (2011) "Parades banlieusardes. El Hadj de Mamadou Mahmoud N’Dongo et les identités criminelles," Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature: Vol. 77: No. 1, Article 10.
Available at: https://crossworks.holycross.edu/pf/vol77/iss1/10