Post-Colonial Cultures in France

by Hargreaves,Alec

• ISBN13: 9780415144889
• ISBN10: 0415144884
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1997-12-18
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Using a diversity of critical and theoretical approaches from the humanities,Post-Colonial Cultures in Franceexplores the globalization of cultures and international migration. The contributions cover both the ethnic diversity of minority groups and a variety of cultural exchanges ranging from literature and music to film and television.

Table of Contents

List of plates
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Post-Colonial Problematic in France	p. 3
La France Arabe	p. 26
Immigrant Politics in a Republican Nation	p. 40
French Cinema and Post-Colonial Minorities	p. 59
Gatekeepers and Gateways: Post-Colonial Minorities and French Television	p. 84
Broadcasting from the Margins: Minority Ethnic Radio in Contemporary France	p. 99
France's Ethnic Minority Press	p. 115
The Impact of World Music in France	p. 133
Panama City Rapping: B-Boys in the Banlieues and Beyond	p. 150
Metissage in Post-Colonial Comics	p. 169
Artistic Gaps in the Ethnic Circle	p. 189
Calixthe Beyala and the Post-Colonial Woman	p. 211
Resistance at the Margins: Writers of Maghrebi Immigrant Origin in France	p. 226
North African Women and the Ideology of Modernization: From Bidonvilles to Cites De Transit and HLM	p. 240
Culture, Citizenship, Nation: The Narrative Texts of Linda Le	p. 255
Index	p. 268
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