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Chapter 3 focuses on the former Nanterre shantytown La Folie (1952–71) and responds to the questions: What room can art make for women in male-dominated histories of architectural modernism, anticolonial liberation, and migration? And what strategies do women and artists employ to repair broken memory transmission and imagine possible futures? The chapter explores Leila Sebbar’s novel La Seine était rouge and two intermedial texts that turn to the visual, sound, and ethnographic archives of Monique Hervo: Laurent Maffre’s 2012 graphic novel Demain, demain and Mehdi Lallaoui’s 2014 theater piece Monique H., Nanterre 1961. The author shows how the work of memory repair in relation to women’s lives in La Folie relies on multiple aesthetic containers that form other paths to knowing and thinking through women’s complex lives and agency in bidonville mass housing.

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