French Civilization and Its Discontents Nationalism, Colonialism, Race

by Abbeele, Van Den Georges; Bergstrom, Janet; Gafaiti, Hafid; Glissant, Edouard; Hunter, Donna; Jonassaint, Jean; Kaussen, Valerie; Kleinberg, Ethan; Maghraoui, Driss; Morton, Patricia A.; Stovall, Tyler; Terdiman, Richard; Thompson, Lyn; Den Abbeele, Georg

• ISBN13: 9780739106464
• ISBN10: 0739106465
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-10-22
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

French Civilization and Its Discontents: Nationalism, Colonialism, Race explores the ways in which considerations of difference, especially colonialism, post-colonialism, and race, have shaped French culture and French studies in the modern era. Rejecting traditional assimilationist notions of French national identity, contributors to this groundbreaking volume demonstrate how literature, history and other aspects of what is considered French civilization have been shaped by processes of creolization and differentiation.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction
Tyler Stovall and Georges Van Den Abbeele
PART I: THE INTELLIGENTSIA AND NEW CONCEPTIONS OF FRENCH IDENTITY	17	(86)
1 The Marginality of Michel de Certeau	19	(22)
Richard Terdiman
2 Disorienting Le Corbusier: Charles-Edouard Jeanneret's 1911 Voyage d'Orient	41	(14)
Patricia A. Morton
3 France in the Wilderness	55	(14)
Winifred Woodhull
4 Opacity in the Films of Caire Denis	69	(34)
Janet Bergstrom
PART II: BLACK DIASPORA AND CREOLIZATION	103	(84)
5 The French Language in the Face of Creolization	105	(10)
Edouard Glissant
6 Kojève and Fanon:The Desire for Recognition and the Fact of Blackness	115	(14)
Ethan Kleinberg
7 'Historically Particular Uses of a Universal Subject"	129	(18)
Donna Hunter
8 For a Caribbean Intente d: On Some Readings of Maryse Condé's Crossing the Mangrove	147	(26)
Jean Jonassaint
9 "Hereditary Antagonism": Race and Nation in Maurice Casseus's Viejo	173	(14)
Valerie Kaussen
PART III: ORIENTALISM AND THE MAGHREBIAN PRESENCE IN POSTCOLONIAL FRANCE	187	(84)
10 Nationalism, Colonialism, and Ethnic Discourse in the Construction of French Identity	189	(24)
Hafid Cafaiti
11 French Identity, Islam, and North Africans: Colonial Legacies, Postcolonial Realities	213	(22)
Drils Maghraoui
12 Social Dynamics in Colonia Algeria:The Question of Pieds-Noirs Identity	235	(16)
Ali Yedes
13 Remembering the Jews of Algeria	251	(20)
Nancy Wood
PART IV: MISCEGENATION, DEGENERATION, AND OTHER METROPOLITAN ANXIETIES	271	(72)
14 Decadence/Degeneration/Créolité: Rachilde's La jongleuse	273	(24)
Lyn Thompson
15 Love, Labor, and Race: Colonial Men and White Women in France during the Great War	297	(26)
Tyler Stovall
16 The Children of Belgium	323	(20)
Georges Von Den Abbeele
Further Reading	343	(22)
Index	365	(6)
About the Contributors	371