| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 255 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction -- 1. 'Qui fait la France?' New configurations of Frenchness in contemporary urban fiction -- 2. Breaking the chains of ethnic identity: Faïza Guène, Saphia Azzeddine, and Nadia Bouzid, or the birth of a new Maghrebi-French women's literature -- 3. From daughter to mother, from sister to brother: building identities in Faïza Guène's novels -- 4. The immigrant in Abdellatif Kechiche's cinematic work: transcending the question of origins -- 5. Seeking paths to existence in Rachid Djaïdani's Rengaine -- 6. Beur and banlieue television comedies: new perspectives on immigration -- 7. They had a dream: out-marching exclusion and hatred -- 8. Narrativizing foreclosed history in 'postmemorial' fiction of the Algerian War in France: October 17, 1961, a case in point -- 9. Unearthing the father's secret: postmemory and identity in harki and pied noir narratives -- 10. Representations of the harkis in contemporary French-language films -- 11. 'L'oued revient toujours dans son lit': Franco-Maghrebi identity in Hassan Legzouli's film Ten'ja -- 12. Rewriting the memory of immigration: Samuel Zaoui's Saint Denis bout du monde -- 13. Harragas in Mediterranean illiterature and cinema -- Index |
| Summary |
An interdisciplinary collection of essays examining the depiction of immigration from North Africa in contemporary French culture |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
In English |
| Subject |
French literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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French literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism
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North Africans -- France
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Immigrants in literature.
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Immigrants in motion pictures.
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Immigrants on television.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- French.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- General.
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French literature
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Immigrants in literature
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Immigrants in motion pictures
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Immigrants on television
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North Africans
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France
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Machelidon, Véronique, editor
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Saveau, Patrick, editor
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| ISBN |
9781526107664 |
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152610766X |
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9781526107657 |
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1526107651 |
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