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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826505803321

Autore

Gill-Khan Chloe A.

Titolo

The Politics of Integration : Law, Race and Literature in Post-War Britain and France / / Chloe A. Gill-Khan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2018

ISBN

1-317-13972-0

1-315-58087-X

1-317-13971-2

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 pages)

Collana

Studies in Migration and Diaspora

Disciplina

323.141

Soggetti

Culture - Study and teaching - Great Britain - History - 21st century

Culture - Study and teaching - France - History - 21st century

Minorities - Study and teaching - Great Britain

Minorities - Study and teaching - France

Great Britain Race relations Government policy

France Race relations Government policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

part PART I Anchors -- chapter 1 Anchoring the self -- chapter 2 The ‘Dark Continent’: minorities, race and the law in Europe -- part PART II Justice -- chapter 3 Ziggurat shadows: time, space, memories and justice -- part PART III Love -- chapter 4 Garments of love: healing men and women -- part PART IV The self -- chapter 5 Khudi: the self in Europe -- part PART V Departure -- chapter 6 Embarkations of the self.

Sommario/riassunto

"After almost seven decades, Britain and France, nation's with divergent political cultures and heirs to contrasting philosophies of 'integration', have proclaimed the failure to integrate their post-war ethnic minorities: at this present time, the 'Muslim'. The 'argument' of this book, therefore, is a question: despite the legal, political and social commitments that emerged from the events of the Holocaust, why do both nation's continue to govern minorities on the sites of the law and race? Through comparative readings of British Asian and Franco-



Maghrebian literatures, the author examines the contours and patterns of British and French post-war governance and racism over four decades. Departing from prevailing theories in postcolonial studies that situate post-war racism within the narrative of colonialism or the politics of the nation-state, The Politics of Integration shows how we must re-appraise the inter-war histories of minorities if we are to ask more meaningful questions about the present. We are invited to take stock of how well theorization of post-war ethnic populations and their politics have served us in terms of asking: what does history tell us, and how and where do we - Europe and its minorities - go from here? As such, the book will appeal to scholars in multiple disciplines in the humanities and social sciences such as history, philosophy, literature, cultural and postcolonial studies. "--Provided by publisher.