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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453153703321

Autore

Thomas Dominic Richard David

Titolo

Africa and France [[electronic resource] ] : postcolonial cultures, migration, and racism / / Dominic Thomas

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, 2013

ISBN

0-253-00703-8

1-283-99410-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (345 p.)

Collana

African expressive cultures

Disciplina

305.896/044

Soggetti

Africans - Cultural assimilation - France

National characteristics, French

Multiculturalism - France

Racism - France

Postcolonialism - France

Electronic books.

France Race relations

Africa Emigration and immigration France

France Emigration and immigration Africa

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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 "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.

Sommario/riassunto

Africa and France reveals how increased control over immigration has changed cultural and social production, especially in theatre, literature,



film, and even museum construction. A hated of foreigners, accompanied by new forms of intolerance and racism, has crept from policy into popular expressions of ideas about the postcolony and ethnic minorities. Dominic Thomas's stimulating and insightful analyses unravel the complex cultural and political realities of longstanding mobility between Africa and Europe and question the attempt at placing strict limits on what it means to be French or European