‘Qui fait la France?’ New configurations of Frenchness in contemporary urban fiction
| Autor: | Steve Puig |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
| DOI: | 10.7228/manchester/9780719099489.003.0002 |
| Popis: | This essay traces the change in focus from beur literature in the 1980s to urban literature in the 1990s onwards. Whereas beur literature showed characters torn between their original culture and their adopted culture, urban literature presents characters claiming and asserting their belonging to France and refusing to be confined to racist stereotypes. Relying on a collection of short stories entitled Chroniques d’une société annoncée published in 2005 by a group of writers named Qui Fait la France?, Puig shows how the short stories give fresh and different representations of people living in the banlieue. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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