Should the Subaltern Clean
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4275576 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Svetozar Stojanović (0000-0003-3639-8914, corresponding author), Sonja Stojanovic |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 39-54 |
| Publication date | 2020-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Mosaic (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0027-1276 • E-ISSN: 1925-5683 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/mos.2020.0006 |
| OpenAlex | W4379616907 |
| Language | EN |
This essay investigates, through a reading of contemporary French fiction, the politics of naming “the help.” It considers how cleaning ladies are both rendered hypervisible and required to be invisible; it examines how they tidy up the narration, while performing what one could term a perverse effet de réel
Aesthetics · Art · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Reading (process) · Sociology · Subaltern · French Urban and Social Studies · History · Law · Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |