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Africa and France : postcolonial cultures, migration, and racism / Dominic Thomas.

Van Pelt Library DC34.5.A37 T48 2013
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Thomas, Dominic Richard David.
Series:
African expressive cultures
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Africans--Cultural assimilation--France.
Africans.
Postcolonialism.
Emigration and immigration.
Africans--Cultural assimilation.
France--Race relations.
France.
Race relations.
National characteristics, French.
Multiculturalism--France.
Multiculturalism.
Racism--France.
Racism.
Africa--Emigration and immigration.
Africa.
France--Emigration and immigration.
Postcolonialism--France.
Physical Description:
329 pages ; 23 cm.
Place of Publication:
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2013]
Summary:
This stimulating and insightful book reveals how increased control over immigration has changed cultural and social production in theater, literature, and even museum construction. Dominic Thomas's analysis unravels the complex cultural and political realities of long-standing mobility between Africa and Europe. Thomas questions the attempt to place strict limits on what it means to be French or European and offers a sense of what must happen to bring about a renewed sense of integration and global Frenchness. Book jacket.
Contents:
Museology and globalization: the Quai Branly Museum
Object/subject migration: The National Centre for the History of Immigration
Sarkozy's Law: national identity and the institutionalization of xenophobia
Africa, France, and Eurafrica in the twenty-first century
From mirage to image: contest(ed)ing space in diasporic films (1955-2011)
The "Marie Ndiaye Affair," or the coming of a postcolonial évoluée
The Euro-mediterranean: literature and migration
Into the European "jungle": migration and grammar in the new Europe
Documenting the periphery: the French banlieues in words and film
Decolonizing France: national literatures, world literature, and world identities.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-312) and index.
ISBN:
9780253006691
0253006694
9780253006707
0253006708
OCLC:
811729098

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