Description
Book SynopsisChallenging the identity politics that sets immigrants against the mainstream, this book explores how black expressive culture has reformulated as global culture in the multicultural and multinational spaces of France. It brings forward questions such as: why France is a privileged site of civilization, who is a French, and who is an immigrant.
Trade Review. . . a wide—ranging exploration of the literature of the black experience of France. . . . Particularly valuable is [Thomas's] examination of francophone African literature . . . Any library supporting programs in Francophone or African studies will want this scholarly but accessible book. . . . Recommended.
* Choice *
[This] book offers a welcome reminder of the breadth and depth of French cultural intersections. 51.1 April 2008
* African Studies Review *
Thomas' approach opens up new intersections for a broader understanding of contemporary cultural studies of francophone Africa, as distinct from most studies of Anglophone Africa that are most frequently grounded in history and anthropology to the exclusion of lived experience as a literary adventure. Vol. 33.1-2 (Winter-Spring 2008)
-- Peter J. Bloom * University of California (Santa Barbara) *
Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments
Note on Translations
1. Introduction: Black France in Transcolonial Contexts
2. Francocentrism and the Acquisition of Cultural Capital
3. Textual Ownership and the Global Mediation of Blackness
4. Rhetorical Mediations of Slavery
5. Afro-Parisianism and African Feminisms
6. Fashion Matters: La sape and Vestimentary Codes in Transnational Contexts and Urban Diasporas
7. African Youth in the Global Economy
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
