Rester. Étranger
Creators: Collectif La Famille Rester.Etranger, Barbara Manzetti
The reader of "Rester. Étranger" is an invitation to follow these multiple voices as they recount their journeys, their experiences as exiles and their budding friendships, their artistic residencies, the move into a shared space and the bumpy returns home, the laughter and the difficulties, the discrimination, the memories and the dreams. The story weaves its way through different places: public space (the streets of Paris), administrative spaces (the prefecture), places of learning (Paris 8 University, the Bureau d'accueil des migrants), cultural venues (La Ménagerie de Verre, Khiasma) and private spaces. Rester. Étranger is a sensitive reflection on the French language, and makes writing a place of encounter and absolute hospitality, going against the migratory policies of closure and exclusion. Filled with amusing distortions of words, declensions of expressions and their meanings, happy misunderstandings, dizzying cacophonies and dazzling poetic breakthroughs, this book shows how collective writing is a powerful site of invention and hybridity.
Call number : P/FAMI/REST