ISBN:
9786612131080
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9781282131088
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9780803224650
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
Online-Ressource (XXVI, 460 S.)
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Ill
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23 cm
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg. UK MyiLibrary 2009 Electronic reproduction
Ausgabe:
Also available in print
Serie:
France overseas
Paralleltitel:
Print version Transnational Spaces and Identities in the Francophone World
DDC:
305.8009171/244
Schlagwort(e):
Minorities Social conditions
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Immigrants Social conditions
;
Postcolonialism Social aspects
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Transnationalism
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French literature History and criticism
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Frankreich
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Überseeterritorium
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Politische Identität
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Französisches Sprachgebiet
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Soziale Situation
;
Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Frankreich
;
Überseeterritorium
;
Politische Identität
;
Französisches Sprachgebiet
;
Soziale Situation
Kurzfassung:
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 Francophone World examines the impact of this postcolonial immigration on identity in France and in the Francophone world, which has encompassed parts of Africa, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and the Americas. Immigrants bear cultural traditions within themselves, transform "host" communities, and are, in turn, transformed. These migrations necessar
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Editors' Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I. Colonialism and Immigration; 1. The French Colonial Myth of a Pan-Mediterranean Civilization; 2. The Uncomfortable Inhabitants of French Colonial Modernity; 3. Race Making and Race Mixing in the Early Twentieth-Century Immigration Debate; Part II. Immigrant Spaces and Identities; 4. Shantytown Republics; 5. Excluding the Harkis from Repatriate Status, Excluding Muslim Algerians from French Identity; 6. The Transformation of French Identity in Mathieu Kassovitz's Films Métisse (1993) and La Haine (1995)
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Part III. Writing Algerian Identities7. A Poet's Politics; 8. Counterviolence and the Ethics of Nomadism; 9. Interpretation, Representation, and Belonging in the Works of Leïla Sebbar; Part IV. Jewish Migrations and Identities; 10. Jews from Algeria and French Jewish Identity; 11. Anti-Arab and Anti-French Tendencies in Post-1948 Oriental Jewish Literature Written in French; 12. The Figure of the Jew in North Africa; Part V. Francophone Spaces and Multiple Identities; 13. Transnational Identities in the Novels of Amin Maalouf; 14. Madwoman in the Senegalese Muslim Attic
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
15. Gender, Exile, and Return in Viêt-Kiê`u Literature16. Vietnamese Relationships; Part VI. Postmodern Sites and Identities; 17. Feminism and Neocolonialism; 18. The Self as Other; 19. Displaying World Culture in Provincial France; Contributors; Index
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Also available in print.
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Electronic reproduction
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