J. McCormack et alii (dir.), Hexagonal Variations. Diversity, Plurality and Reinvention in Contemporary France

Hexagonal Variations. Diversity, Plurality and Reinvention in Contemporary France

Sous la direction de Jo McCormack, Murray Pratt and Alistair Rolls

Amsterdam : Rodopi, coll. "Faux titre", 2011.

EAN 9789042032453

469 p.

Prix 94EUR

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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?

Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Jo McCormack, Murray Pratt and Alistair Rolls: Towards a Preface
Murray Pratt and Alistair Rolls: Variations on the Hexagon: Getting the Measure of Culture Change in Contemporary France
Section 1: Perspectives on Hexagonality
Rada Ivekovic: The Global Nostalgia of a Non-global Language
Brigitte Jandey: Frenchness in Perspective(s)
Jean-Marc Kehrès (Translated by Alistair Rolls): National Genius and Universal Sociability: The Relevance of the Enlightenment Today
Section 2: Expressing Plurality
Joe Hardwick: So Over the Rainbow? The Singular Plurality of Martineau and Ducastel's Drôle de Félix
Monique Monville-Burston: Youth Speech au pluriel in the Written Press
Sam Haigh: Integration or Interaction? Disability in France Today
Section 3: Identity and Ethnicity
Hélène Jaccomard: Racaille versus Flics? Who's to Blame for Criminality and Delinquency in Franco-Maghrébine (Beur) Fiction?
Francesco Ricatti: ‘Je ne suis pas noir': Global Football and (Post)Colonial France
Martine Fernandes (Translated by Murray Pratt): Tos Ethnic Identity in France through the Blogs of Young People of Portuguese Descent
Section 4: Measuring Cultural Change in Contemporary France
Kiran Grewal: The Natives Strike Back: ‘L'Appel des Idigènes de la République' and the Death of Republican Values in Post-colonial France
Lawrence R. Schehr: Soukaz in a Staccato Mode
Martin O'Shaughnessy: Hidden Violences: Work and the Working Class in Recent French Film
Section 5: Reordering Regionality
Chris Reynolds: May-June 1968. Reflector and Vector of a Nation's Diversity: The Case of Strasbourg, Alsace
Angela Giovanangeli (Translated by Travis Watters): French Unity and the European Union: The Role of French Regions
Russell West-Pavlov: Haunted Europe: Virilio and Sangatte
Section 6: Paris au pluriel
Ben McCann: A Many Splendoured Thing? Plural Visions of the City in Paris, je t'aime
Carolyn Stott: Belleville au pluriel: Representations of a Parisian Suburb in the Néo-Polar
Katherine Gantz: Concrete Criticism: Annotation and Transformation in Haussmannized Paris
Section 7: Hexagonal Variations
Vladimir Kapor: On a Postcolonial Dialogue de Sourds: Exotisme in Contemporary French Criticism
Fiona Barclay: Postcolonial France: Immigration and the De-Centring of the Hexagon
Enda McCaffrey and Murray Pratt: Erasmus, Exchange Value and Euronormativity in Cédric Klapisch's L'Auberge espagnole and Les Poupées russes
Contributors' Biographies
Index