id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_atq7e2le75evrg5gshtpk5k2ay Anna-Leena Toivanen Cartographies of Paris: Everyday mobilities in Michèle Rakotoson's Elle, au printemps and Alain Mabanckou's Tais-toi et meurs 2019 39 .pdf application/pdf 11065 679 54 Cartographies of Paris: Everyday Mobilities in Michèle Rakotoson's mobilities; Alain Mabanckou; Michèle Rakotoson; urban spaces Mabanckou's Tais-toi et meurs (2012), use everyday urban mobilities in their protagonists' use of mobility systems and the narratives' production of urban Paris their city, and underlining its role in their newly established mobile subjectivities. In what follows, I analyze the novels' ways of producing mobile cartographies of Paris By locating the protagonist on the mobile map of Paris, the narrative The 'urban uncanny' in Rakotoson's novel is related to the protagonist's Sahondra's becoming a modern, metropolitan postcolonial mobile subject is and the urban uncanny in Rakotoson's text translate this mobility-related anxiety into protagonists' attempts to 'manage' Paris through everyday urban mobility gives The narrative not only conveys Sahondra's frustration with urban mobile through a mobility-related urban uncanny which is generated through the protagonist's protagonist's urban (im)mobilities, generating a sense of suspense. ./cache/work_atq7e2le75evrg5gshtpk5k2ay.pdf ./txt/work_atq7e2le75evrg5gshtpk5k2ay.txt