Returning to Reims
Eribon, Didier2018
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After his father dies, Didier Eribon returns to his hometown of Reims and rediscovers the working-class world he had left behind thirty years earlier. For years, Eribon had thought of his father largely in terms of the latter's intolerable homophobia. Yet his father's death provokes new reflection on Eribon's part about how multiple processes of domination intersect in a given life and in a given culture. Eribon sets out to investigate his past, the history of his family, and the trajectory of his own life. His story weaves together a set of remarkable reflections on the class system in France, on the role of the educational system in class identity, on the way both class and sexual identities are formed, and on the recent history of French politics, including the shifting voting patterns of the working classes -- reflected by Eribon's own family, which changed its allegiance from the Communist Party to the National Front. Returning to Reims is a remarkable book of sociological inquiry and critical theory, of interest to anyone concerned with the direction of leftist politics in the contemporary world, and to anyone who has ever experienced how sexual identity can clash with other parts of one's identity. A huge success in France since its initial publication in 2009, Returning to Reims received enthusiastic reviews in Le Monde, Liberation, L'Express, Les Inrockuptibles, and elsewhere.
Main title:
Returning to Reims / Didier Eribon ; translated by Michael Lucey.
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Imprint:
London : Allan Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2018.
Collation:
249 pages ; 23 cm.
Notes:
"First published as Retour á Reims 2009"--Title page verso."This translation first published by Semiotext(e) in 2018"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
9780241344620
Dewey class:
194
Language:
English
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BRN:
339369
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brighton Library | Adult Non Fiction - Biography | 194 ERI | Available |