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By David Caron

"It is a residing museum of a long-gone Jewish existence and, supposedly, an affidavit to the good fortune of the French version of social integration. it's a communal domestic the place homosexual women and men are stated to face in defiance of the French version of social integration. it's a position of freedom and tolerance the place humans of colour and lesbians however suppose undesirable and the place younger Zionists from the suburbs assemble each Sunday and occasionally harass Arabs. it's a sizzling subject within the press and on tv. it really is open to the realm and open for company. it's a position to be noticeable and a spot of invisibility. it's like a house to me, a spot the place i think either secure and misplaced and the place my father felt cozy and alienated whilst. it's a position of nostalgia, innovation, disgrace, delight, and anxiousness, the place the neighborhood and the worldwide intersect for greater and for worse. And for higher and for worse, it's a French neighborhood."—from My Father and I

Mixing own memoir, city reviews, cultural heritage, and literary feedback, in addition to a beneficiant choice of images, My Father and I makes a speciality of the Marais, the oldest surviving local of Paris. It additionally fantastically unearths the intricacies of the connection among a Jewish father and a homosexual son, each one claiming an analogous local as his personal. starting with the background of the Marais and its importance within the building of a French nationwide id, David Caron proposes a rethinking of neighborhood and appears at how Jews, chinese language immigrants, and gays have made the Marais theirs.

These groups embrace, of their engagement of city house, a regular problem to the French thought of common citizenship that denies all of them political legitimacy. Caron strikes from the strictly French context to extra theoretical matters akin to social and political archaism, immigration and diaspora, survival and haunting, the public/private divide, and staff friendship as metaphor for unruly and dynamic types of group, and founding failures akin to AIDS and the Holocaust. Caron additionally tells the tale of his father, a Hungarian Jew and Holocaust survivor who immigrated to France and as soon as referred to as the Marais home.

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