My Father and I: The Marais and the Queerness of Community

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Index [ 261 ] accessories, 106, 108 ACT UP, 147; Paris, 66–67, 70–71, 75, 81, 95–96, 135, 153, 155 AIDES, 67, 81, 130 AIDS, 66–67, 71, 74–75, 94–95, 97, 100, 126, 130, 209; and African Americans, 127; as foundational disaster, 151, 153–58, 177, 179, 199; as gay Holocaust, 153–58; in the Marais, 25, 71–72, 80, 109, 129; and risk, 99; survivors, 108, 177; treatments, 79, 95. See also ACT UP; gay activism; HIV Agamben, Giorgio, 168 A la recherche du temps perdu (Proust), 113–19 Alexander II, assassination of, 38 Algerian Jews, 39 alienation, 142, 151, 158, 166–67, 220. See also singularity Alsatian Jews, 37–40, 42, 47, 163–64 anality: 147, 201–203, 206–207. See also excrement ; homosexuality; latrines Angels in America, 126 Antelme, Robert, 168, 206–214 Anti-Semite and Jew (Sartre), 78 anti-Semitism, 16, 19, 37, 40, 43–44, 54, 57, 78, 114, 121–22, 124, 141–42, 157 Arabs: integration, 92–93, 200 archaism, 67, 77, 93, 115, 118–19, 122, 124–28, 147, 211. See also temporality aristocrats. See Old Regime Ashkenazi Jews, 37, 39, 46–47, 86 atelier, L’ [TheWorkroom] (Grumberg), 152–53 Atta, Mohammed, 131 Auguste, Philippe, 36 Auschwitz, 25, 144–45, 151, 159, 171–72, 175, 179–82, 206, 216, 218, 220, 224, 232, 234 “Auschwitz” (Delbo), 179–80 Auschwitz and After (Delbo): Aucun de nous ne reviendra, 158, 167–69, 176–79, 218 ; Une connaissance inutile 153, 170, 181, 216–18; Mesure de nos jours, 143–46, 151–52, 159, 171–74, 216, 218–221 authenticity, 131, 134–35 author: and identification, 131, 138, 241; and immigration, 20; shame of, 141–42, 160, 224, 228 author’s family 6, 10, 233; and Holocaust, 6, 228, 231–36; in Hungary, 6, 228, 230–32 author’s father, 1, 8; in Caen, 4, 12; career of, 3, 4, 162; citizenship, 5, 15–17; death of, 222, 227, 229, 242; and fatherhood, 3, 8–9, 12, 19, 142, 159–60, 236; French language, 161; and friendship, 4–5, 7, 11, 18, 183–84, 196–98; Holocaust survivor, 4, 9–10, 141–42, 223; in Hungary, 2–3, 11, 17, 227–28, 230, 233; immigration, 11, 17–18, 20; and Israel, 11–13, 15–16, 18, 184; jewishness of, 3, 20, 141, 225; in the Marais, 1, 12, 222–27, 237, 239; as Prisoner of War, 4, 5, 183–87; and queerness, 20–21, 141, 226; shame of, 141–42, 160 autofiction, 97 Azéma, Jean–Pierre, 26 backward glances, 116, 128, 132 Badinter, Robert, 66 banlieues: communautarisme, 92–93; Jewish communities, 93 Baranès, William. See Dustan, Guillaume barebacking, 94–97, 99 Barrès, Maurice, 77, 122, 198, 246n4 Barthes, Roland, 229–31 Bartlett, Neil, 247n4 Bastille, la: 34 ; Place de, 29, 60, 73 Bataille, George, 10 Being Singular Plural, 116 Belleville, 38, 41, 52, 54, 206–7 Betar, 92 Beur identity, 73 Bialot, Joseph, 206 biography, 229 “Black Market” (Hollander), 138–39, 149 Blanchot, Maurice, 159 bleeding host, miracle of, 37 Bober, Robert, 153 Bourdieu, Pierre, 233 Boutin, Christine, 124 Bowen, John R., 200 Boyarin, Daniel, 16 Bret, Antoine, 32, 33 Brody, Jeanne, 86 Broqua, Christophe, 95 Butler, Judith, 119 Camera Lucida, 229 camp, 61, 126, 138, 205, 211 Camus, Albert, 99 capitalism, 69, 72, 80, 125, 201–4, 207 Catholic Priest Scandal, 130–31 Ce que j’ai cru comprendre (Kriegel), 163–65 Certeau, Michel de, 84 C’est en hiver que les jours rallongent (Bialot), 206–7 Chambers, Ross, 101, 107–8, 177, 216, 246n19 Charles V, 30 Charles VI, 30, 36 Chevènement, Jean–Pierre, 199–200 children and disaster, 173–75, 181–82, 228 Chirac, Jacques, 27, 90 Chinese: anti-Chinese sentiment, 53; and commerce, 50–53; as Jews, 52; in Marais, 29, 50, 74; immigration to France, 49–52, 54; raids of, 54; in twelfth arrondissement 50; in thirteenth arrondissement, 51; and urban legend, 52–53 Christ, Yvan, 57 citizenship: of author’s father, 5, 15–16; failure of, 16, 18–19; French, 16, 76, 77, 135, 162 Clermont-Tonnerre, count of, 76 Clinton, Bill, 126, 133 closet, 105–6, 108, 130, 135, 147, 248n32 Cocteau, Jean, 59, 218 Cohn, Roy, 126 coming out, 71, 130–34, 137, 139, 147, 241 commerce: and Chinese, 50–53, 94 ; in Marais, 1, 42, 44, 52–54, 70 ; monoactivité, 53; de proximité, 53, 94 communautarisme, 67, 75–77, 81, 95–96, 99, 102, 124, 200 communion, 142, 213. See...