Africa and France: Postcolonial Cultures, Migration, and Racism by Dominic Thoma

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This stimulating and insightful book reveals how increased control over immigration has changed cultural and social production in theater, literature, and even museum construction. Dominic Thomas's analysis unravels the complex cultural and political realities of long-standing mobility between Africa and Europe.

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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. Thomas offers a sense of what must happen to bring about a renewed sense of integration and global Frenchness.

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Offers a sense of what must happen to bring about a renewed sense of integration and global Frenchness

Author Biography

Dominic Thomas is Professor of Comparative Literature and French and Francophone Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is author of Nation-Building, Propaganda, and Literature in Francophone Africa (IUP, 2002) and Black France: Colonialism, Immigration, and Transnationalism (IUP, 2007).

Table of Contents

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: France and the New World Order1. Museology and Globalization: The Quai Branly Museum2. Object/Subject Migration: The National Centre for the History of Immigration 3. Sarkozy's Law: National Identity and the Institutionalization of Xenophobia4. Africa, France, and Eurafrica in the Twenty-First Century5. From mirage to image: Contest(ed)ing Space in Diasporic Films (1955-2011)6. The "Marie NDiaye Affair," or the Coming of a Postcolonial evoluee7. The Euro-Mediterranean: Literature and Migration8. Into the European "Jungle": Migration and Grammar in the New Europe9. Documenting the Periphery: The French banlieues in Words and Film10. Decolonizing France: National Literatures, World Literature, and World IdentitiesNotesBibliographyIndex

Review

"A hugely impressive piece of scholarship by a leading figure in the field of French Studies who has carved out a position over the past decade as perhaps the most authoritative voice in U.S.academia on relations between France and its former sub-Saharan African colonies." David Murphy, University of Stirling "The work's versatility and multitudinal approach that encompasses literature, film, and museum exegesis as well as ethnographical analyses of contemporary French/Francophone societies illuminate important issues of Frenchness and national identity." Didier Gondola, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis

Long Description

This stimulating and insightful book reveals how increased control over immigration has changed cultural and social production in theater, literature, and even museum construction. Dominic Thomas's analysis unravels the complex cultural and political realities of long-standing mobility between Africa and Europe. Thomas questions the attempt to place strict limits on what it means to be French or European and offers a sense of what must happen to bring about a renewed sense of integration and global Frenchness.

Review Quote

"[This book's] astonishing breadth and documentation make it a worthwhile read for anyone interested in France's colonial legacy today." --Intl Journal of African Historical Studies

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Black immigration and French cultural identity

Details ISBN0253006708 Author Dominic Thomas Short Title AFRICA & FRANCE Publisher Indiana University Press Series African Expressive Cultures Language English ISBN-10 0253006708 ISBN-13 9780253006707 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2013 Imprint Indiana University Press Subtitle Postcolonial Cultures, Migration, and Racism Place of Publication Bloomington, IN Country of Publication United States DEWEY 303.4824406 Affiliation University of California University of California, Los Angeles Univers Illustrations black & white illustrations Pages 344 Publication Date 2013-03-20 Audience Professional and Scholarly UK Release Date 2013-03-20 AU Release Date 2013-03-20 NZ Release Date 2013-03-20 US Release Date 2013-03-20 We've got this

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