Emergent voices of (North) African immigrant women and their daughters in French literature and film : challenging the inside, seeking outside, passing through walls / Sarah B. Buchanan

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Buchanan, Sarah B., author.

Series:

Contemporary French and francophone cultures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

French literature--Women authors--History and criticism.

French literature.

French literature--Foreign authors--History and criticism.

Women in literature.

Girls in literature.

Immigrants in literature.

Immigrants in motion pictures.

Women in motion pictures.

Girls in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2025

Summary:

"Emergent Voices is the first study of the earliest novels and films by (North) African immigrant women and their daughters in France, from 1981 to 2001. Across three sections, each of which delves into one film and one novel, this book examines how immigrant mothers, schoolgirls, and young adult women are narrated as people who reimagine national identity. Section One, “Challenging the Inside” analyzes Le Petit Prince de Belleville by Calixthe Beyala and Inch’Allah dimanche by Yamina Benguigui, dissecting how immigrant mothers refuse to be contained physically or symbolically by either the French or their families. Section two looks at how schoolgirls juggle ideological conflict when they travel “Outside” to go to school, in Georgette ! by Farida Belghoul and Le Petit chat est mort by Fejria Deliba. Section three explores the identities of young adult women, as represented in Souviens-toi de moi by Zaïda Ghorab and Le Fou de Shérazade by Leïla Sebbar. These protagonists find belonging in their French and immigrant communities by playing a dangerous game of manipulating signs of identity and slipping across borders. Ultimately, these emergent creative voices stretch national boundaries and pave the way for more inclusive models of imagined community to develop"-- JSTOR

Contents:

Exile, identity, and the female body in Calixthe Beyala’s Le petit prince de Belleville

Rewriting territory from the inside out in Yamina Benguigui’s Inch’Allah dimanche

Disrupted ideologies and secret subjectivities in Farida Belghoul’s Georgette !

Stepping out and slipping in : geopolitical intertextuality in Fejria Deliba’s Le petit chat est mort

Cross-dressing national identity in Zaïda Ghorab’s Souviens-toi de moi

Stolonic national identity in Leïla Sebbar’s Le fou de Shérazade

Conclusion : emergent trailblazing

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed April 6, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version: Buchanan, Sarah B. Emergent voices of (North) African immigrant women and their daughters in French literature and film

ISBN:

9781836249313

1836249314

9781836249764

1836249764

OCLC:

1521333170