Transnational Spaces and Identities in the Francophone World

by Gafaiti, Hafid; Lorcin, Patricia M. E.; Troyansky, David G.

• ISBN13: 9780803244528
• ISBN10: 0803244525
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-07-01
• Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr

Summary

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 Worldexamines 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 necessarily complicate ideals of national literature, culture, and history, forcing a reexamination and a rearticulation of these ideals. Exploring a variety of texts informed by these transnational conceptions of identity and space, the contributors to this volume reveal the vitality of Francophone studies within a broad range of disciplines, periods, and settings. They remind us that the idea and reality ofFrancophonieis not a late twentieth-century phenomenon but something that grows out of long-term interactions between colonizer and colonized and between peoples of different nationalities, ethnicities, and religions. Truly interdisciplinary, this collection engages conceptions of identity with respect to their physical, geographic, ethnic, and imagined realities.

Author Biography

Hafid Gafaïti is Horn Professor of French and Jeanne Charnier-Qualia Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Texas Tech University. He has published more than a dozen books. Patricia M. E. Lorcin is an associate professor of history at the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities, editor of French Historical Studies, and the author of Imperial Identities, Stereotyping, Prejudice and Race in colonial Algeria. David G. Troyansky is a professor of history at Brooklyn College and at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. He is the author of Old Age in the Old Regime: Image and Experience in Eighteenth-Century France. Contributors: Trudy Agar-Mendousse, Robert Aldrich, Elisa Camiscioli, Habiba Deming, Philip Dine, Alain Gabon, Antony Johae, Neil MacMaster, Mary McCullough, Joseph Militello, David Prochaska, Johann Sadock, Todd D. Shepard, Sarah Sussman, David G. Troyansky, Georges Van Den Abbeele, Keith Watenpaugh, Brigitte Weltman-Aron, and Ali Yedes

Table of Contents

Editors' Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xxv
Colonialism and Immigration
The French Colonial Myth of a Pan-Mediterranean Civilization	p. 3
The Uncomfortable Inhabitants of French Colonial Modernity: Mandate Syria's Communities of Collaboration (1920-1946)	p. 24
Race Making and Race Mixing in the Early Twentieth-Century Immigration Debate	p. 53
Immigrant Spaces and Identities
Shantytown Republics: Algerian Migrants and the Culture of Space in the Bidonvilles	p. 73
Excluding the Harkis from Repatriate Status, Excluding Muslim Algerians from French Identity	p. 94
The Transformation of French Identity in Mathieu Kassovitz's Films Metisse (1993) and La Haine (1995)	p. 115
Writing Algerian Identities
A Poet's Politics: Jean Senac's Writings during the Algerian War	p. 149
Counterviolence and the Ethics of Nomadism: Malika Mokeddem's Reconstruction of Algerian Identity	p. 182
Interpretation, Representation, and Belonging in the Works of Leila Sebbar	p. 200
Jewish Migrations and Identities
Jews from Algeria and French Jewish Identity	p. 217
Anti-Arab and Anti-French Tendencies in Post-1948 Oriental Jewish Literature Written in French	p. 243
The Figure of the Jew in North Africa: Memmi, Derrida, Cixous	p. 264
Francophone Spaces and Multiple Identities
Transnational Identities in the Novels of Amin Maalouf	p. 289
Madwoman in the Senegalese Muslim Attic: Reading Myriam Warner-Vieyra's Juletane and Mariama Bâ's Un chant écarlate	p. 303
Gender, Exile, and Return in Viêt-Kiêu Literature	p. 321
Vietnamese Relationships: Confucian or Francophone Model	p. 344
Postmodern Sites and Identities
Feminism and Neocolonialism: Discursive Practices	p. 371
The Self as Other: Yasmina Bouziane	p. 388
Displaying World Culture in Provincial France: Francophonie in Limoges	p. 412
Contributors	p. 429
Index	p. 435
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