Peripheral vision: the aesthetics of political marginality in contemporary French fiction.

从黄马甲到总罢工，法国的街道已经成为被忽视和受压迫者的异议剧场，他们的高能见度夹克最终构成了一种被关注的呼吁。在这个国家与全球联系紧密的城市之外，在郊区和其他地方，可以发现一群感觉被忽视的人，但他们已经开始抗议。在一个长期实行官僚集权的国家，被后工业资本主义推到了边缘，这个“francepacriphacririque”的居民被标记为政治边缘，这引发了民主和美学代表性的问题。最近的法国小说并没有回避质疑新自由主义扩张所投下的阴影，以及随之而来的普遍的疏离感。我的论文探讨了当代小说是如何将人们的生活聚焦在21世纪初以来主导法国的社会经济形势中被忽视的生活。通过哲学家和人类学家乔治·迪迪-休伯曼（Georges Didi-Huberman）提供的镜头，我试图研究文学本身在文化市场中日益边缘化，如何代表法国边缘的这些濒危物种，并为它们的消失提供潜在的抵抗形式。我问，作为一种基本的具象体裁，小说的视觉维度如何使其启发式潜力，以及它的同情和道德力量，以及它所描绘的虚构形象如何对民主参与和社会认同产生影响。

From gilets jaunes to general strikes, France's streets have become a theatre of dissent for thedisregarded and downtrodden, whose high-visibility jackets ultimately constitute a call to be seen.Outside the country's globally connected cities, in the banlieue and beyond, can be found a populationwhich feels invisible, but which has begun to protest. Pushed to the side-lines by post-industrialcapitalism, in a country that has long been bureaucratically centralised, the inhabitants of this "Francepériphérique" are marked by a political marginality that raises questions of democratic and aestheticrepresentation. Recent French fiction has not shied away from interrogating the shadow cast by neo-liberal expansion, and the pervasive sense of alienation that accompanies it. My thesis explores how thecontemporary novel brings into focus the lives that have been discounted in the socio-economic situationwhich has dominated France since the turn of the twenty-first century. Through the lens offered by thephilosopher and anthropologist Georges Didi-Huberman, I seek to examine how literature, itselfincreasingly marginalised in the cultural marketplace, represents these endangered existences atFrance's edges and offers potential forms of resistance to their effacement. I ask how, as afundamentally figurative genre, the novel's visual dimension enables its heuristic potential, as well as itsempathetic and ethical force, and how the fictional images it portrays bear implications for democraticparticipation and social identity.