{"product_id":"urban-bridges-global-capital-s-trans-mediterranean-francospheres-9781789628111","title":"Urban Bridges, Global Capital(s):","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis collection of essays on Trans-Mediterranean Francospheres offers an original examination of cultural production and the flows between urban capitals and “capital” in and of a selection of Mediterranean cities and sites. In three parts, the book covers both familiar and overlooked terrain, in chapters which examine writing the city, the transit between different poles, film and EU designated cultural capitals. The collection therefore brings together texts and their critical readings in new comparative ways. Following Jacques Derrida’s peregrinations in \u003ci\u003eL’Autre Cap\u003c\/i\u003e (1991), the volume interrogates the what of Europe; the when or where of Paris; the who of the Mediterranean. Or might the Mediterranean fall under the rubric of \u003ci\u003epaleonomy\u003c\/i\u003e, that is, as Michael Naas recalls Derrida’s words in \u003ci\u003ePositions\u003c\/i\u003e: “the ‘strategic’ necessity that requires the occasional maintenance of an \u003ci\u003eold name\u003c\/i\u003e in order to launch a new concept.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTaking this forward, we understand the Mediterranean as an old name to \u003ci\u003elaunch \u003c\/i\u003ea new concept and the essays in the book each reflect on this in different ways. Issues concerning identity are challenged, since a Metropolitan, European, Arab or African identity may be preferred over a Mediterranean one. As borders become reinforced in the region, trans-Mediterranean bridging narratives may be thwarted, especially by those who write across Europe, Africa and the Middle East, in the face of the contemporary refugee crisis. Finally, chapters explore what it means to define a Mediterranean city—such as Marseille as European Capital of Culture—and interrogate how this feeds into the cultural production of a city whose multi-ethnic identities are as outward-looking towards North Africa as they are inward towards the French capital.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eContributors: Silvia Baage, Marzia Caporale, Angela Giovanangeli, Mark Ingram, Christa Jones, Gemma King, Claire Launchbury, Megan C. MacDonald, Agnès Peysson-Zeiss, Ipek Çelik Rappas, Alison Rice, Rania Said\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This edited volume breathes new life into our understanding of cultural exchanges in the Mediterranean. The contributors' inventive attention to the 'Francosphère' revives debates around postcolonial cultural production in its myriad interdisciplinary expressions.\"\u003cbr\u003eClaudia Esposito, University of Massachusetts-Boston\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Urban Bridges, Global Capital(s)\u003cbr\u003eClaire Launchbury and Megan C. MacDonald\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART I: WRITING CAPITAL(S), NARRATING THE CITY: MEDITERRANEAN \u003ci\u003eALLER\/RETOURS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1:  The Flâneuses of Tunis: Reading the City in the Life Narratives of Kaouthar Khlifi and Dora Latiri\u003cbr\u003eRania Said\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2:  City Speak: Nice through the Eyes of Jean Vigo, Jacques Demy and Emmanuel Roblès\u003cbr\u003eChrista Jones\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3: Moroccan Narratives of Dystopia: Representations of Tangier in Leïla Kilani’s film \u003ci\u003eSur la planche\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMarzia Caporale\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4: Cultural Capitals in Crisis: Meditating on the Mediterranean and Memory Between Paris and Athens in \u003ci\u003eLa clarinette\u003c\/i\u003e by Vassilis Alexakis\u003cbr\u003eAlison Rice\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: MARSEILLE \u003ci\u003eMULTIPLES \u003c\/i\u003e: CAPITAL OF CULTURE\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eChapter 5: Screening Cosmopolitan and Mediterranean Marseille\u003cbr\u003eIpek Çelik Rappas\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6: Shaping Mediterranean geographies: The museum of European and Mediterranean civilisations in Marseille and the making of identity\u003cbr\u003eAngela Giovanangeli\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7: Marseille Provence 2013:  a social face-lift for an old lady?\u003cbr\u003eAgnès Peysson-Zeiss\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8: Bridges and fault lines in the Mediterranean City: Neighbourhood memory in an urban walk in Marseille\u003cbr\u003eMark Ingram\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART III– MEDITERRANEAN BEYONDS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 9: Between the Comoros Islands and Marseille: Trans-Mediterranean bridging narratives in the works of Salim Hatubou\u003cbr\u003eSilvia Baage\u003cbr\u003eChapter 10: Trans-Mediterranean Beyroutes\u003cbr\u003eClaire Launchbury\u003cbr\u003eChapter 11: Multilingual Pilgrimages: Language and Trans-Mediterranean Cultural Identity in Ismaël Ferroukhi’s \u003ci\u003eLe Grand Voyage\u003c\/i\u003e (2004)\u003cbr\u003eGemma King\u003cbr\u003eChapter 12: Bare Life At Sea: Mediterranean Crossings, Istanbul Limbo\u003cbr\u003eMegan C. MacDonald\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003eContributor Biographies","brand":"Liverpool University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50470046695767,"sku":"9781789628111","price":109.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781789628111.jpg?v=1744897233","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/urban-bridges-global-capital-s-trans-mediterranean-francospheres-9781789628111","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}