| Description |
xxxiv, 173 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-166) and index. |
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Includes filmography (p. 153-154) |
| Contents |
Introduction. France, football, and new national identities ; The unspoken underbelly : the "other" France ; Situating our perspective ; Which French?... ; ...And what of the Francophone? ; Of structures and texts -- Ethnicizing the national, nationalizing the ethnic. Defining belonging ; Cultural and fictive constructs of national identity ; Should paradise be private? -- The society of spectacle in post 9/11 France. 9/11 and literature ; From Begag's Beni to Y.B.'s Kamel ; Kamel's France ; (Re)interpreting Kamel's France ; France distilled -- Reading gender into ethnicity. Fixing identity : the Beur conundrum ; Nini's "Beurette" ; Belghoul's Georgette! -- Of lesbians and cross-dressers. Locating Balasko ; Subverting the triangle in Gazon maudit ; Sexuality, authorship and the dissident potential ; The French connection in Ma vie en rose ; Trajectories for "Tom girls" ; Fantasy and the geographies of transgender desire -- In the shadow of the republic. PaCS and the republic ; Pignon's placard ; The figure of the clandestine ; Marking change in republican rhetoric ; French dreams ; Felix's family. |
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Begag, Azouz, 1957- -- Criticism and interpretation.
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French literature -- 20th century -- Influence.
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Identity (Psychology) in literature.
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Marginality, Social -- France.
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Motion pictures -- France -- Influence.
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Alienation (Social psychology) in literature.
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French literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
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| ISBN |
9780739165379 |
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0739165372 |
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9780739165362 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0739165364 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9780739165386 (ebk.) |
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0739165380 (ebk.) |
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