France has always hosted a rich and vibrant black presence within its borders. But recent violent events have raised questions about France's treatment of ethnic minorities. Challenging the identity politics that have set immigrants against the mainstream, Black France explores how black expressive culture has been reformulated as global culture in the multicultural and multinational spaces of France. Thomas brings forward questions such as - Why is France a privileged site of civilization? Who is French? Who is an immigrant? Who controls the networks of production? Black France poses an urgently needed reassessment of the French colonial legacy. Dominic Thomas is Professor of Comparative Literature and Chair of the Department of French and Francophone Studies at University of California, Los Angeles. He is author of "Nation-Building, Propaganda, and Literature in Francophone Africa" (IUP, 2002).
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"Without a doubt one of the most important studies so far completed on literature in French grounded in the experiences of migrants of sub-Saharan African origin."--Alex Hargreaves, Florida State University
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A dynamic view of the politics of cultural exchange between Africa and France.
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Written in English, this book describes the experience of Negroes in France. The reader gets to appreciate the complexity of the legacies of history overlaid on a modern society. One of these can be appreciated by many Americans - slavery. Many French colonies in Africa had slavery, and Frenchmen transported slaves to the Caribbean.
The book describes how Negroes have been depicted in French novels; perhaps often stereotyped. There are issues about francocentrism, where a Negro might completely adopt French culture and language, in order to be accepted. Another complexity is feminism. Black females in France might have several aspects of identity, where sometimes these might conflict. The book tends to dwell more on literary or cultural issues. It has little in the way of economic or statistical analysis on subjects like discrimination in employment, education or housing.
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minor transnationalism, global blackness, postcolonial hospitality, docker noir, migrant impulse, sur une utopie, esclave moderne, evidentiary mode, intellectuels africains, sur les littératures, occidental superiority, textual ownership, mestizo logics, rive noire, préférence nationale, ambiguous adventure, littérature africaine, présence africaine, postcolonial communities, female excision, étudiants noirs, immigrant context, tirailleurs sénégalais, diasporic context, francophone literature Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Black Docker, African American, Black France, Ousmane Sembene, United States, Native Son, Richard Wright, The Dark Child, Diaw Falla, Ginette Tontisane, Mirages de Paris, Calixthe Beyala, Republic of the Congo, Bernard Dadié, African Diaspora, Blank Darkness, European Court of Human Rights, Laye Camara, French Republic, Ousmane Socé, Cheikh Hamidou Kane, French West Africa, Léopold Sédar Senghor, Ivory Coast, Modern Slavery New!
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- Nationalists and Nomads: Essays on Francophone African Literature and Culture by Christopher L. Miller on 16 pages
- Native Son by Richard A. Wright on 15 pages
- The Dark Child: The Autobiography of an African Boy by Camara Laye on 14 pages
- Black Docker (African Writers Series) by Sembene Ousmane on 13 pages
- On the Postcolony (Studies on the History of Society and Culture) by Achille Mbembe on 11 pages
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