Inscription du passe colonial dans la litterature urbaine contemporaine
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Title
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Inscription du passe colonial dans la litterature urbaine contemporaine
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Identifier
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d_2009_2013:491571d35f31:11516
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identifier
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12005
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Creator
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Puig, Steve,
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Contributor
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Thomas C. Spear
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Date
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2012
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Language
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French
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Romance literature | banlieue | French | ghetto | postcolonial | urban
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Abstract
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This dissertation argues that urban literature---a genre that has developed after the 2005 riots in France---has helped redefine French identity for a new generation of French citizens living in the outskirts of Paris whose parents were born in the former colonies. This new genre of fiction deals with daily life in the French banlieue, but also tackles themes that are linked to France's colonial past in Sub-Saharan Africa, the Maghreb and the French Caribbean among others. It is precisely the transmission of this colonial past that contributes to a new configuration in French society. Chapter One deals with the history of the French suburbs, dwelling especially on the banlieue as a sociological space, which is often portrayed negatively in the media. Chapter Two shows the importance of Beur literature as a precursor of urban literature. Chapter Three considers the banlieue as an internal colony and argues that the development of postcolonial studies in France was triggered by the situation of descendants of colonial subjects living in the margins of the capital. Chapter Four deals with urban novels written by Franco-Maghrebi women. Asserting that women describe the banlieue in a more intimate way than their male counterparts, this chapter demonstrates the importance of events like October 17th 1961 and the necessity to rewrite French history. The last chapter delves into the question of blackness in urban literature and the place of minorities from Africa and the French Caribbean in contemporary French society.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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2009_2013.csv
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degree
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Ph.D.
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Program
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French
