Description
Book SynopsisTranscultural Teens provides readers with a window onto the cultural and linguistic creativity of the housing projects, or cité, that ring Paris, showing how young people of Algerian Arab origins play with language in fascinating ways that subvert commonly held notions of intercultural animosity.
- Provides solid, real-world evidence in the often abstracted theoretical debate on globalization and transnationalism
- Offers detailed data on linguistic practices that is more focused than generalized anthropological studies
- Includes the experiences of French-Algerian adolescent girls who remain largely absent from academic and popular discourse
- Reveals the cultural richness and diversity of a population that is stigmatized and marginalized in a national context
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vi
Introduction: Performing Transcultural Youth Identities 1
1 Ethnography in les Cités 8
2 Speech in the Cité: Style and Stigma 34
3 “Sans Problème” or “Cent Problèmes”? Revoicing Stereotypes about les Arabes 58
4 La Racaille and le Respect 91
5 “You Call That a Girl?”: Gender Crossing and Borderwork 114
6 Parental Name-Calling 154
7 Crossing Registers: Voicing the French TV Host 172
Conclusion 195
References 200
Index 213
