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Book SynopsisPost-Migratory Cultures in Postcolonial France offers a critical assessment of the ways in which French writers, filmmakers, musicians and other artists descended from immigrants from former colonial territories bring their specificity to bear on the bounds and applicability of French republicanism, “Frenchness” and national identity, and contemporary cultural production in France. In mobilizing a range of approaches and methodologies pertinent to their specialist fields of inquiry, contributors to this volume share in the common objective of elucidating the cultural productions of what we are calling
post-migratory (second- and third-generation)
postcolonial minorities.
The volume provides a lens through which to query the dimensions of postcoloniality and transnationalism in relation to post-migratory postcolonial minorities in France and identifies points of convergence and conversation among them in the range of their cultural production. The cultural practitioners considered query traditional French high culture and its pathways and institutions; some emerge as autodidacts, introducing new forms of authorship and activism; they inflect French cultural production with different ‘accents’, some experimental and even avant-garde in nature. As the volume contributors show, though post-migratory postcolonial minorities sometimes express dis-settlement, they also provide an incisive view of social identities in France today and their own compelling visions for the future.
Table of ContentsI. Introduction: The Post-Migratory PostcolonialKathryn Kleppinger and Laura Reeck
II. Generations and DesignationsDifference-Conscious Critical Media Engagement and the Communitarian QuestionJennifer Fredette
Banlieue Writers: The Struggle for Literary Recognition through Collective MobilisationKaoutar Harchi
Francophone and Post-Migratory Afropeans Within and Beyond France TodayChristopher Hogarth
III. Postmemory, or telling the past to the presentUn cinéma sans image: Palimpsestic Memory and the Lost History of Cambodian FilmLeslie Barnes
Vietnam by Removes: Storytelling and Postmemory in Minh Tran HuyCatherine H. Nguyen
Moving Beyond the Legacies of War in Second-Generation Harki NarrativesSusan Ireland
IV. Urban Cultures/IdentitiesRedefining Frenchness through Urban Music and Literature: The Case of Rapper-Writers Abd Al Malik and DisizStève Puig
‘Double discours’: Critiques of Racism and Islamophobia in French RapChong J. Bretillon
‘Beyond Ethnicity’ or a Return to Type?: Bande de filles /Girlhood (Sciamma, 2014) and the Politics of Blackness in Contemporary French CinemaWill Higbee
V. Imaginings in Visual LanguagesSomebody or Anybody? Hip hop Choreography and the Cultural EconomyFelicia McCarren
Mixed Couples in Contemporary French Cinema: Exploring New Representations of Diversity and Difference on the Big ScreenLeslie Kealhofer-Kemp
‘Nos ancêtres n’étaient pas tous des Gaulois’: Post-migration and bande dessinéIlaria Vitali
Identity and ‘Difference’ in French Art: El Seed’s Calligraffiti from Street to WebSiobhán Shilton
VI. Afterword: A Long Road to TravelAlec G. Hargreaves and Mark McKinney
