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Book SynopsisIn Ethnic Minority Women's Writing in France, Mouflard argues that the identity politics surrounding the immigration discourse of early twenty-first century France were reflected in the marketing and editing practices of the Metropole's key publishers, specifically with regards to non-white French women's literature. Echoing the utopic Black-Blanc-Beur model of integration which surfaced during the 1998 soccer World Cup, select publishers fashioned unofficial literary categories based on neocolonial racial and gender stereotypes, either lauding integrated Beur authors or exploiting Black political dissenters. Concurrently, metropolitan women writers in their autobiographies, autofictions, and manifestoes, problematized notions of French multiculturalism and literary hierarchies, thereby exposing the dangers of utopian thinking. Mouflard ultimately reveals that the absence of the Franco-Vietnamese identity from the Black-Blanc-Beur paradigm enabled authors of Southeastern Asian origi
Table of Contents
Introduction: The “Black-Blanc-Beur” Utopia and the Autobiographical Response
Chapter 1: Utopia, Paratexts, and Publishers
Chapter 2: “Beur,” “Banlieue Victims,” and “Intégrées:” Samira Bellil, Nina Bouraoui, Nora Hamdi
Chapter 3: “Black,” “Afro-French,” and “Évoluées:” Calixthe Beyala, Bessora, Fatou Diome
Chapter 4: Franco-Vietnamese Literature: The Unspoken Making of Anna Moï and Linda Lê
Conclusion: Beyond “Black-Blanc-Beur:” Negotiating Labels and “littérature-monde”
