Hexagonal Variations : Diversity, Plurality and Reinvention in Contemporary France.
Title:
Hexagonal Variations : Diversity, Plurality and Reinvention in Contemporary France.
Author:
McCormack, Jo.
ISBN:
9789042032460
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (453 pages)
Series:
Faux Titre, 359
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Towards a Preface -- Variations on the Hexagon: Getting the Measure of Culture Change in Contemporary France -- SECTION 1: PERSPECTIVES ON HEXAGONALITY -- The Global Nostalgia of a Non-global Language -- Frenchness in Perspective(s) -- National Genius and Universal Sociability: The Relevance of the Enlightenment Today -- SECTION 2: EXPRESSING PLURALITY -- So Over the Rainbow? The Singular Plurality of Martineau and Ducastel's Drôle de Félix -- Youth Speech au pluriel in the Written Press -- Integration or Interaction? Disability in France Today -- SECTION 3: IDENTITY AND ETHNICITY -- Racaille versus Flics? Who's to Blame for Criminality and Delinquency in Franco-Maghrébine (Beur) Fiction? -- 'Je ne suis pas noir': Global Football and (Post)Colonial France -- Tos Ethnic Identity in France through the Blogs of Young People of Portuguese Descent -- SECTION 4: MEASURING CULTURAL CHANGE IN CONTEMPORARY FRANCE -- The Natives Strike Back: 'L'Appel des Indigènes de la République' and the Death of Republican Values in Postcolonial France -- Soukaz in a Staccato Mode -- Hidden Violences: Work and the Working Class in Recent French Film -- SECTION 5: REORDERING REGIONALITY -- May-June 1968. Reflector and Vector of a Nation's Diversity: The Case of Strasbourg, Alsace -- French Unity and the European Union: The Role of French Regions -- Haunted Europe: Virilio and Sangatte -- SECTION 6: PARIS AU PLURIEL -- A Many Splendoured Thing? Plural Visions of the City in Paris, je t'aime -- Belleville au pluriel: Representations of a Parisian Suburb in the Néo-Polar -- Concrete Criticism: Annotation and Transformation in Haussmannized Paris -- SECTION 7: HEXAGONAL VARIATIONS -- On a Postcolonial Dialogue de Sourds: Exotisme in Contemporary French Criticism.
Postcolonial France: Immigration and the De-Centring of the Hexagon -- Erasmus, Exchange Value and Euronormativity in Cédric Klapisch's L'Auberge espagnole and Les Poupées russes -- Contributors' Biographies -- Index.
Abstract:
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?.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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