Transcultural teens : performing youth identities in French cités / Chantal Tetreault.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tetreault, Chantal, author.

Series:

New directions in ethnography ; 5.

New directions in ethnography ; 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Minority teenagers--France--Paris--Social life and customs.

Minority teenagers.

Minority teenagers--France--Paris--Language.

Algerians--France--Paris--Social life and customs.

Algerians.

Algerians--France--Paris--Languages.

Language and languages.

Manners and customs.

France--Paris.

Physical Description:

vii, 219 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Chichester : Wiley Blackwell, 2015.

Summary:

The housing projects that ring modern Paris are a highly fluid linguistic and cultural melting pot, where youth culture combines North African, French, and American elements in a constantly evolving mélange. Transcultural Teens provides readers with a window into the cultural and linguistic creativity of the cités. It shows how young people of Algerian Arab origins play with language and culture in fascinating and revealing ways, and in so doing afford us keen insights into youth culture and globalization. The author's observations demonstrate that, for from evincing the "clash of Civilizations" so feared (and anticipated) by Western and Arab cultures, youth in Paris housing projects steadfastly occupy a progressive social crossroads where cultural ingredients from North African and European traditions are fused-and thus transformed. The book contributes to an understanding of the emergent identities that arise through movement across geographic, cultural, and linguistic terrain, and includes that commentary on the everybody experiences of youth French Algerian women-notably absent from scholarly publications and popular media alike. The author shows how the experience of growing up in a cité is one of spatial and racial marginalization within the national context of France, yet is nevertheless highly receptive to the frequent encounters with people, cultures, and modes of communication from a range of disparate sources. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Ethnogrphy 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Current copyright fee: GBP24.00 10\0.

ISBN:

9781118388112

1118388119

9781119044154

1119044154

OCLC:

912495813