Francophone Cultures And Geographies Of Identity

Author : Zsuzsanna Fagyal,H Adlai Murdoch
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443863445

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Francophone Cultures and Geographies of Identity by Zsuzsanna Fagyal,H Adlai Murdoch Pdf

This collection of original essays challenges French-centered conceptions of francophonie as the shaping force of the production and study of the French language, literature, culture, film, and art both inside and outside mainland France. The traditional view of francophone cultural productions as offshoots of their hexagonal avatar is replaced by a pluricentric conception that reads interrelated aspects of francophonie as products of specific contexts, conditions, and local ecologies that emerged from post/colonial encounters with France and other colonizing powers. The twenty-one papers grouped into six thematic parts focus on distinctive literary, linguistic, musical, cinematographic, and visual forms of expression in geographical areas long defined as the peripheries of the French-speaking world: the Caribbean, the Indian Ocean, the Maghreb, sub-Saharan Africa, Quebec, and hexagonal cities with a preponderance of immigrant populations. These contested sites of French collective identity offer a rich formulation of distinctly local, francophone identities that do not fit in with concepts of linguistic and ethnic exclusiveness, but are consistent with a pluralistic demographic shift and the true face of Frenchness that is, indeed, plural.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : French-speaking countries
ISBN : OCLC:873454286

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Francophone Cultures and Geographies of Identity by Anonim Pdf

Author : Hafid Gafaiti
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780803224650

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Transnational Spaces and Identities in the Francophone World by Hafid Gafaiti Pdf

The dissolution of the French Empire and the ensuing rush of immigration have led to the formation of diasporas and immigrant cultures that have transformed French society and the immigrants themselves. Transnational Spaces and Identities in the Francophone World examines the impact of this postcolonial immigration on identity in France and in the Francophone world, which has encompassed parts of Africa, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and the Americas. Immigrants bear cultural traditions within themselves, transform “host” communities, and are, in turn, transformed. These migrations necessarily complicate ideals of national literature, culture, and history, forcing a reexamination and a rearticulation of these ideals. Exploring a variety of texts informed by these transnational conceptions of identity and space, the contributors to this volume reveal the vitality of Francophone studies within a broad range of disciplines, periods, and settings. They remind us that the idea and reality of Francophonie is not a late twentieth-century phenomenon but something that grows out of long-term interactions between colonizer and colonized and between peoples of different nationalities, ethnicities, and religions. Truly interdisciplinary, this collection engages conceptions of identity with respect to their physical, geographic, ethnic, and imagined realities.

Author : Elizabeth Houston Jones
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9789042022836

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Spaces of Belonging by Elizabeth Houston Jones Pdf

Questions of space, place and identity have become increasingly prominent throughout the arts and humanities in recent times. This study begins by investigating the reasons for this growth in interest and analyses the underlying assumptions on which interdisciplinary discussions about space are often based. After tracing back the history of contact between Geography and Literary Studies from both disciplinary perspectives, it goes on to discuss recent academic work in the field and seeks to forge a new conceptual framework through which contemporary discussions of space and literature can operate. The book then moves on to a thorough application of the interdisciplinary model that it has established. Having argued that the experience of contemporary space has rendered questions of home and belonging particularly pressing, it undertakes detailed analysis of how these phenomena are articulated in a selection of recent French life writing texts. The close, text-led readings reveal that whilst not often highlighted for their relevance to the analysis of space, these works do in fact narrate the impact of some of the most significant cultural experiences of the twentieth century, including the Holocaust and the AIDS crisis, upon geo-cultural senses of identity. Home is shown to be a deeply problematic, yet strongly desired, element of the contemporary world. The book concludes by addressing the underlying thesis that contemporary life writing might provide just the 'postmodern maps' that could help not only literary scholars, but also geographers, better understand the world today. Key names and concepts: Serge Doubrovsky - Hervé Guibert - Fredric Jameson - Philippe Lejeune - Régine Robin; Autofiction - Cultural Geography - Interdisciplinarity - Place and Identity - Postmodernism - Space - Postmodern Space - Literary Studies - Twentieth-Century Life Writing.

Author : Kamal Salhi
Publisher : Intellect Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Diskursanalyse
ISBN : 1902454057

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Francophone Studies by Kamal Salhi Pdf

A collection of studies of the experiences, portrayals and representations through the eyes of writers, dramatists, artists and policy makers based in French-speaking areas. The work covers: -- the French influence in the Francophone world -- cultural variation in Francophonia -- interdisciplinary (aesthetics, language, culture & identity, history, etc..). -- the 'cultural production' of Francophones. -- relations between metropolitan France and its former colonies.This is of interest to observers of the French language and seekers of information on culture, history and politics in francophone countries.

Author : Dean R. Louder,Eric Waddell
Publisher : Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0807116696

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French America by Dean R. Louder,Eric Waddell Pdf

Although considerable scholarly attention has been paid to some of the largest of the francophone groups - particularly those in Quebec and Louisiana - this collection represents an impressive attempt to include many of the other centers of French language and culture in a single coherent historical and geographical perspective. The essays also consider the variety and similarities at these centers as minority islands within an aggressive and alien anglophonic sea. The volume's contributors offer a sophisticated analysis of the many aspects of the New World French experience, which began in the early seventeenth century and extends to the present day. Most of them address the history of a population, its interaction with the surrounding anglophone culture, and the measure and pattern of assimilation to it.

Author : Wendy Ayres-Bennett,Mari C. Jones
Publisher : MHRA
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781904350682

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The French Language and Questions of Identity by Wendy Ayres-Bennett,Mari C. Jones Pdf

Our choice of linguistic code is one of the most fundamental ways open to us of establishing our membership of some groups and our distance from others. This symbolic value of language may often leave it open to exploitation, especially by the state. The present volume demonstrates how the multi-faceted nature of the concept of identity makes its relationship with language both complex and unpredictable. Because of its particular historical and social characteristics, the French language provides especially fertile territory for the exploration of this theme. Four main axes stand out in the French context: 'institutionalised' identity, regional identity, social identity and competing identities. These themes are explored from different perspectives by leading experts from Britain, Europe and North America: Roger Baines, Kate Beeching, Danielle Bouverot, David Cowling, Edith Esch, François Gadet, Penelope Gardner-Chloros, David Hornsby, John E. Joseph, Dominique Lagorgette, Jacques Landrecies, Dawn Marley, Nicolas Pepin, Tim Pooley, Gilles Siouffi, Albert Valdman, Barbara von Gemmingen and Chantal Wionet.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004501379

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Discursive Geographies / Géographies discursives by Anonim Pdf

The present collection of essays follows in the wake of recent work in cultural geography challenging the idea that maps are scientifically neutral entities, or that space, unlike time, is immobile. In defining space, place and geography as forms of textuality, the essays collected in this volume examine the ways in which postcolonial and metropolitan literary and filmic texts in French can at once inscribe and produce place and space, and thereby participate in forms of “discursive geographies.” Contributors: François Bon; Alexandre Dauge-Roth; Habiba Deming; Zakaria Fatih; Jeanne Garane; Patricia Geesey; Greg Hainge; Sirène Harb; Jean-Luc Joly; Chantal Kalisa; Michel Laronde; Valérie Loichot; Mary McCullough; Michael O’Riley; Pascale Perraudin; Walter Putnam; Antoine Stéphani; Abdourahman A. Waberi.

Author : Adlai Murdoch,Pascale De Souza
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443869546

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Metropolitan Mosaics and Melting-Pots by Adlai Murdoch,Pascale De Souza Pdf

Migration is both a demographic and a cultural phenomenon. As such, it both reshapes the global village and subverts the all-encompassing vision of the city, a space split between the blending of all new cultures and the need felt by many migrants to maintain their traditions and thereby contribute to a multicultural mosaic. This series of essays explores how the concepts of the melting-pot and the mosaic have shaped the representation of Paris and Montreal in francophone literatures. Migrant movements to these cities from the Caribbean, the Maghreb, Sub-Saharan Africa, Quebec, Indochina, and the Indian Ocean have produced new groups of intersecting cultures. Under the dual influences of their native and host countries, migrants have produced an innovative and multifaceted literature that reflects their composite world-view. Their writing poses pressing questions of ethnicity, immigration, integration, and citizenship, and challenges longstanding notions both of the concept of the city and of how its spaces embody and articulate Frenchness in the face of ongoing change. Such shifts produce changes not only in the diasporic culture, but in the national culture as well, through creolization processes. These shifting identities increasingly destabilize current notions of national membership and social and cultural belonging, since we can no longer presume a direct correspondence between place, culture, language and identity. They also pose new questions of national identity and difference as the immigrant presence expands and inflects the cosmopolitan pluralism of today’s societies.

Author : Dawn Marley,Marie-Anne Hintze,Gabrielle Parker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : French language
ISBN : UOM:39015042788193

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Linguistic Identities and Policies in France and the French-speaking World by Dawn Marley,Marie-Anne Hintze,Gabrielle Parker Pdf

Author : Frédéric Royall
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 3039100742

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Contemporary French Cultures and Societies by Frédéric Royall Pdf

An interdisciplinary collection of writings on various aspects of change in contemporary French-speaking society, spanning the broad fields of politics and society, arts and culture, the French language, and francophone literatures.

Author : yasser elhariry
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781786948229

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Pacifist Invasions by yasser elhariry Pdf

Pacifist Invasions is about what happens to the contemporary French lyric in the translingual Arabic context. Drawing on lyric theory, comparative poetics, and linguistics, it reveals three generic modes of translating Arabic poetics into French in works by Habib Tengour (Algeria), Edmond Jabès (Egypt), Salah Stétié (Lebanon), Abdelwahab Meddeb (Tunisia), and Ryoko Sekiguchi (Japan).

Author : Paul Cooke,Helen Vassallo
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3039115472

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Alienation and Alterity by Paul Cooke,Helen Vassallo Pdf

Discussions of French 'identity' have frequently emphasised the importance of a highly centralised Republican model inherited from the Revolution. In reality, however, France also has a rich heritage of diversity that has often found expression in contingent sub-cultures marked by marginalisation and otherness - whether social, religious, gendered, sexual, linguistic or ethnic. This range of sub-cultures and variety of ways of thinking the 'other' underlines the fact that 'norms' can only exist by the concomitant existence of difference(s). The essays in this collection, which derive from the conference 'Alienation and Alterity: Otherness in Modern and Contemporary Francophone Contexts', held at the University of Exeter in September 2007, explore various aspects of this diversity in French and Francophone literature, culture, and cinema from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. The contributions demonstrate that while alienation (from a cultural 'norm' and also from oneself) can certainly be painful and problematic, it is also a privileged position which allows the 'étranger' to consider the world and his/her relationship to it in an 'other' way.

Author : Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel,Ben. Sifuentes-Jáuregui,Marisa Belausteguigoitia
Publisher : Springer
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137547903

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Critical Terms in Caribbean and Latin American Thought by Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel,Ben. Sifuentes-Jáuregui,Marisa Belausteguigoitia Pdf

Through a collection of critical essays, this work explores twelve keywords central in Latin American and Caribbean Studies: indigenismo, Americanism, colonialism, criollismo, race, transculturation, modernity, nation, gender, sexuality, testimonio, and popular culture. The central question motivating this work is how to think—epistemologically and pedagogically—about Latin American and Caribbean Studies as fields that have had different historical and institutional trajectories across the Caribbean, Latin America, and the United States.

Author : Maryon McDonald
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Breton language
ISBN : 0415006325

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"We are Not French!" by Maryon McDonald Pdf