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Title Transnational spaces and identities in the francophone world / edited by Hafid Gafaïti, Patricia M.E. Lorcin, and David G. Troyansky
Published Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xxvi, 460 pages) : illustrations
Series France overseas
France overseas
Contents The French colonial myth of a Pan-Mediterranean civilization / Philip Dine -- The uncomfortable inhabitants of French colonial modernity : Mandate Syria's communities of collaboration (1920-1946) / Keith David Watenpaugh -- Race making and race mixing in the early twentieth-century immigration debate / Elisa Camiscioli -- Shantytown republics : Algerian migrants and the culture of space in the Bidonvilles / Neil MacMaster -- Excluding the Harkis from repatriate status, excluding Muslim Algerians from French identity / Todd Shepard -- The transformation of French identity in Mathieu Kassovitz's films Métisse (1993) and La haine (1995) / Alain Gabon -- A poet's politics : Jean Sénac's writings during the Algerian War / Robert Aldrich -- Counterviolence and the ethics of nomadism : Malika Mokeddem's reconstruction of Algerian identity / Trudy Agar-Mendousse -- Interpretation, representation, and belonging in the works of Leïla Sebbar / Mary McCullough -- Jews from Algeria and French Jewish identity / Sarah Sussman -- Anti-Arab and anti-French tendencies in post-1948 oriental Jewish literature written in French / Johann Sadock -- The figure of the Jew in North Africa : Memmi, Derrida, Cixous / Brigitte Weltman-Aron -- Transnational identities in the novels of Amin Maalouf / Antony Johae -- Madwoman in the Senegalese Muslim attic : reading Myriam Warner-Vieyra's Juletane and Mariama Bâ's Un chant écarlate / Joseph Militello -- Gender, exile, and return in Viêt-Kiè̂u literature / Georges van den Abbeele -- Vietnamese relationships : Confucian or francophone model / Ali Yédes -- Feminism and neocolonialism : discursive practices / Habiba Deming -- The self as other : Yasmina Bouziane / David Prochaska -- Displaying world culture in provincial France : francophonie in Limoges / David G. Troyansky
Summary The dissolution of the French Empire and the ensuing rush of immigration have led to the formation of diasporas and immigrant cultures that have transformed French society and the immigrants themselves. Transnational Spaces and Identities in the Francopho
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Minorities -- France -- Social conditions
Immigrants -- France -- Social conditions
Postcolonialism -- Social aspects -- France
Transnationalism.
French literature -- France -- Colonies -- History and criticism
Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects
Ethnic relations
French colonies
French literature
Immigrants -- Social conditions
Minorities -- Social conditions
Postcolonialism -- Social aspects
Social conditions
Transnationalism
SUBJECT France -- Ethnic relations
France -- Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects
France -- Colonies -- Social conditions
French-speaking countries -- Social conditions
Subject France
French-speaking countries
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Gafaïti, Hafid.
Lorcin, Patricia M. E.
Troyansky, David G.
ISBN 9780803224650
0803224656
1282131087
9781282131088