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

Contemporary French and Francophone cultures ; 107

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

French literature--North African authors--History and criticism.

French literature.

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

Motion pictures, French--History and criticism.

Motion pictures, French.

Women immigrants in literature.

Women immigrants in motion pictures.

North Africans--France--Social conditions.

North Africans.

Women immigrants--France--Social conditions.

Women immigrants.

France--Emigration and immigration--In literature.

France.

France--Emigration and immigration--In motion pictures.

Africa, North--Emigration and immigration--In literature.

Africa, North.

Africa, North--Emigration and immigration--In motion pictures.

Genre:

Literary criticism.

Film criticism.

Physical Description:

viii, 294 pages : illustrations (portraits) ; 24 cm

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"--Back cover

Contents:

Contexts: getting inside the issues. The context of Emergent voices

Context of nations

Illustrative context: the inside story of Le thé à la menthe

Section one: Challenging the inside. 1. Exile, identity, and the female body in Calixthe Beyala's Le Petit Prince de Belleville

2. Rewriting territory from the inside out in Yamina Benguigui's Inch'Allah Dimanche

Section two: Seeking outside. 3. Disrupted ideologies and secret subjectivities in Farida Belghoul's Georgette!

4. Stepping out and slipping in: geopolitical intertextuality in Fejria Deliba's Le Petit chat est mort

Section three: Passing through walls. 5. Cross-dressing national identity in Zaïda Ghorab's Souviens-toi de moi

6. Stolonic national identity in Leïla Sebbar's Le Fou de Shérazade

Conclusion: Emergent trailblazing

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-262) and index

ISBN:

1836245432

9781836245438

OCLC:

1513571636