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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789614403321

Titolo

Hexagonal variations [[electronic resource] ] : diversity, plurality and reinvention in contemporary France / / edited by Jo McCormack, Murray Pratt, and Alistair Rolls

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam, : Rodopi, 2011

ISBN

1-283-03451-4

9786613034519

90-420-3246-4

Descrizione fisica

469 p. : ill. (chiefly col.)

Collana

Faux Titre ; ; 359

Altri autori (Persone)

McCormackJo

PrattMurray

RollsAlistair

Disciplina

222/.1206

Soggetti

Cultural pluralism - France

Social change - France

National characteristics, French

France Social conditions 21st century

France Intellectual life 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

section 1. Perspectives on hexagonality -- section 2.  Expressing plurality -- section 3. Identity and ethnicity -- section 4. Measuring cultural change in contemporary France -- section 5. Reordering regionality -- section 6. Paris au pluriel -- section 7. Hexagonal variations.

Sommario/riassunto

Hexagonal Variations provides an essential overview of key debates about contemporary French society and culture. Concise, challenging and comprehensive, its chapters each address the processes of change and redefinition that characterise France today. Contributors analyse and situate cinematic, literary, online and visual texts, mediatic, political and everyday discourses, in each case pinpointing how diversity, plurality and reinvention inflect cultural and social evolution in France. The chapters in the collection share a key set of thematic



concerns and raise topics for debate among scholars and students alike. Central to these are questions about France’s uncertain place and role in Europe and the wider world; the morphing topography of its capital; and the many conundrums posed by the persistence of Republican paradigms in a global environment. If France is no longer the exception, what are the versions and varieties of being French that are lived, thought and imagined in the new millennium?