'L'amour se dit dans un regard'? Immigration, visibility and representation in Marguerite Duras's Les Mains négatives and Alice Diop's Nous.
Marguerite Duras's Les Mains négatives (1979) is a short film which interrogates the exclusion and marginalisation of immigrants in postcolonial French society by highlighting the hidden labour of Black sanitation workers in Paris. Alice Diop has described Les Mains négatives as 'the entire subtext'...
| Published in: | Modern & Contemporary France Vol. 32; no. 3; pp. 375 - 394 |
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