Post-Colonial Cultures in France

Ethnic minorities, principally from Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and the surviving remnants of France's overseas empire, are increasingly visible in contemporary France. Post-Colonial Cultures in France edited by Alec Hargreaves and Mark McKinney is the first wide-ranging survey in English of the vibrant cultural practices now being forged by France's post-colonial minorities. The contributions in Post-Colonial Cultures in France cover both the ethnic diversity of minority groups and a variety of cultural forms ranging from literature and music to film and television. Using a diversity of critical and theoretical approaches from the disciplines of cultural studies, literary studies, migration studies, anthropology and history, Post-Colonial Cultures in France explores the globalization of cultures and international migration.

Alec Hargreaves, Mark McKinney

I: Overview; 1: Introduction; 2: La France Arabe; 3: Immigrant Politics in a Republican Nation; II: Mass Media; 4: French Cinema and Post-Colonial Minorities; 5: Gatekeepers and Gateways; 6: Broadcasting from the Margins; 7: France's Ethnic Minority Press; III: Music; 8: The Impact of World Music in France; 9: Paname City Rapping; IV: Visual Arts; 10: Métissage in Post-Colonial Comics 1; 11: Artistic Gaps in the Ethnic Circle; V: Literature; 12: Calixthe Beyala and the Post-Colonial Woman; 13: Resistance at the Margins; 14: North African Women and the Ideology of Modernization; 15: Culture, Citizenship, Nation