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    Transnational Spaces and Identities in the Francophone World

    Hafid Gafaïti (Edited by), Patricia M. E. Lorcin (Edited by), David G. Troyansky (Edited by)

    9780803244528

    Paperback / softback, published 1 July 2009

    488 pages, 8 images
    22.9 x 15.2 x 2.8 cm, 0.658 kg

    "The collection of essays, largely drawn from a conference held at Texas Tech in March 2002, examines how migratory movements throughout the francophone world have generated national and transnational cultures. Together, the contributors cover an impressive range of geographical spaces, chronologies (from the colonial to the postcolonial), disciplines, and genres, elucidating the multiplicity of francophone contexts where cultural confrontations have taken place." Kate Marsh, Oxford Journals: French Studies

    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 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 of Francophonie is 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.

    Editors' Preface

    Acknowledgments

    Part 1. Colonialism and Immigration

    1. The French Colonial Myth of a Pan-Mediterranean Civilization          000

                    Philip Dine

    2. The Uncomfortable Inhabitants of French Colonial Modernity: Mandate Syria's Communities of Collaboration (1920<EN>1946)   000

                    Keith David Watenpaugh

    3. Race Making and Race Mixing in the Early Twentieth-Century Immigration Debate     000

                    Elisa Camiscioli

    Part 2. Immigrant Spaces and Identities

    4. Shantytown Republics: Algerian Migrants and the Culture of Space in the Bidonvilles   000

                    Neil MacMaster

    5. Excluding the Harkis from Repatriate Status, Excluding Muslim Algerians from French Identity 000

                    Todd Shepard

    6. The Transformation of French Identity in Mathieu Kassovitz's Films Métisse (1993) and La Haine (1995)              000

                    Alain Gabon

    Part 3. Writing Algerian Identities

    7. A Poet's Politics: Jean Sénac's Writings during the Algerian War           000

                    Robert Aldrich

    8. Counterviolence and the Ethics of Nomadism: Malika Mokeddem's Reconstruction of Algerian Identity 000

                    Trudy Agar-Mendousse

    9. Interpretation, Representation, and Belonging in the Works of Leïla Sebbar     000

                    Mary McCullough

    Part 4. Jewish Migrations and Identities

    10. Jews from Algeria and French Jewish Identity        000

                    Sarah Sussman

    11. Anti-Arab and Anti-French Tendencies in Post-1948 Oriental Jewish Literature Written in French             000

                    Johann Sadock

    12. The Figure of the Jew in North Africa: Memmi, Derrida, Cixous        000

                    Brigitte Weltman-Aron       000

    Part 5. Francophone Spaces and Multiple Identities

    13. Transnational Identities in the Novels of Amin Maalouf     000

                    Antony Johae

    14. Madwoman in the Senegalese Muslim Attic: Reading Myriam Warner-Vieyra's Juletane and Mariama Bâ's Un chant écarlate        000

                    Joseph Militello

    15. Gender, Exile, and Return in Viêt-Kiêu Literature  000

                    Georges Van Den Abbeele

    16. Vietnamese Relationships: Confucian or Francophone Model           000

                    Ali Yédes

    Part 6. Postmodern Sites and Identities

    17. Feminism and Neocolonialism: Discursive Practices             000

                    Habiba Deming

    18. The Self as Other: Yasmina Bouziane     000

                    David Prochaska

    19. Displaying World Culture in Provincial France: Francophonie in Limoges       000

                    David G. Troyansky

    Contributors         000

    Index     000

     
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