Immigrant Narratives in Contemporary France (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Ireland, Susan; Proulx, Patrice J.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The first comprehensive survey of its kind in English, this book examines the experience of immigration as represented by authors who moved to France from the Caribbean, the Maghreb, sub-Saharan Africa, and Asia after World War II. Essays by expert contributors address the literary productions of different ethnic groups while taking into account generational differences and the effects of class and gender. The focus on immigration, a subject which has moved to the center of many sensitive social and political debates, raises questions related to cultural hybridity, identity politics, border writing, and the status of minority literature within the traditional literary canon, all of which constitute vital areas of research in literary, cultural, and historical studies today.

Included are broad socio-historical chapters on general topics related to immigration, along with chapters providing detailed readings of specific texts and authors. A key objective of the book is to consider the ways in which literary texts by authors of immigrant origin explore what it means to be French, and how these works shape debates about French national and cultural identity. The contributors discuss such issues as cultural hybridity, linguistic identity, and the textualization and theorization of otherness.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2001
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313074646
• Artikelnr.: 37829939

Autorenporträt

SUSAN IRELAND is Professor of French at Grinnell College. Her research interests include contemporary French fiction, Quebec women writers, the Algerian novel, and the literature of immigration in France and Quebec. She was one of the editors of The Feminist Encyclopedia of French Literature (Greenwood, 1999). PATRICE J. PROULX is Professor of French and a member of the Women's Studies faculty at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Her research interests include the notion of identity and exile in the works of contemporary French and francophone women writers. Her articles have appeared in such journals as The French Review and Women in French, and she was one of the editors of The Feminist Encyclopedia of French Literature (Greenwood, 1999).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Overview Perceptions of Ethnic Difference in Post-War France
by Alec G. Hargreaves First-Generation Immigrant Narratives by Susan
Ireland Writers of Maghrebi Origin Anamnesis and National Reconciliation:
Re-membering October 17, 1961 by Anne Donadey Balancing Acts: Family and
Integration in the Fiction of Franco-Maghrebi Women Writers by Patricia
Geesey Translating Immigrant Identities in Mounsi's Territoire
d'outre-ville by Susan Ireland Voices of Change: Interlanguage in
Franco-Maghrebi Texts by Farida Abu-Haidar The Post-Colonial Writer between
Anonymity and the Institution: Inscriptions of the Author in Chimo and Paul
Smaïl by Michel Laronde Le Jeu de piste: Tracking Clues to the Emergence of
Maghrebi-French Literature in Farida Belghoul's Georgette! by Mark McKinney
On Natives and Narratives from the Banlieues by Sylvie Durmelat Caribbean
Immigrant Narratives Negotiating the Metropole: Patterns of Exile and
Cultural Survival in Giséle Pineau and Suzanne Dracius-Pinalie by H. Adlai
Murdoch Textualizing the Immigrant Community: Francoise Ega's Lettres a une
Noire by Patrice J. Proulx The African Dispora in France Writing New
Identities: The African Diaspora in Paris by Odile Cazenave Daniel
Biyaoula: Exile, Immigration, and Transnational Cultural Productions by
Dominic Thomas Migrating Genders in Calixthe Beyala's Fiction by Nicki
Hitchcott New Sans-papiers Rhetorics in Contemporary France by Mireille
Rosello Vietnamese Fiction in French Linda Lê and the Prosthesis of Origin
by Martine Delvaux Tainted Blood: On Being Impure in Kim Lefevre's Métisse
blanche and Retour a la saison des pluies by Ching Selao Selected
Bibliography Index