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Author Swamy, Vinay

Title Interpreting the republic : marginalization and belonging in contemporary French novels and films / Vinay Swamy
Published Lanham : Lexington Books, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xxxiv, 173 pages)
Contents List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Ethnicizing the National, Nationalizing the Ethnic -- Chapter 2: The Society of Spectacle in Post-9/11 France -- Chapter 3: Reading Gender into Ethnicity -- Chapter 4: Of Lesbians and Cross-dressers -- Chapter 5: In the Shadow of the Republic -- Conclusion -- Filmography -- Bibliography -- About the Author
Summary Interpreting the Republic focuses on contemporary French literary and cinematic works (1986-2003) that reflect on what it means to belong to a nation such as France by giving voice to those who find themselves marginalized by French society. While citizenship and belonging can be, and indeed are, interpreted differently depending on the socio-cultural and political context, it is the foundational universalist republican principle of egalitarianism that has remained the sacred cow of French society. One of the major claims of this study is that the rigidity of French national discourse that atte
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-166) and index
Includes filmography (pages 153-154)
Notes English
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Subject Begag, Azouz, 1957- -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Begag, Azouz, 1957- fast
Subject French literature -- 20th century -- Influence
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
Marginality, Social -- France
Motion pictures -- France -- Influence
Alienation (Social psychology) in literature.
French literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- French.
Alienation (Social psychology) in literature
French literature
French literature -- Influence
Identity (Psychology) in literature
Marginality, Social
Motion pictures -- Influence
France
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020739993
ISBN 9780739165386
0739165380
1283098865
9781283098861
9786613098863
6613098868