Hexagonal variations
Subtitle: diversity, plurality and reinvention in contemporary France
By: edited by Jo McCormack, Murray Pratt, and Alistair Rolls
Series: Faux titre -- 359
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Amsterdam; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 469
ISBN-13: 9789042032453; 9789042032460
Subjects: Politics and government; Gesellschaft; French National characteristics; Social life and customs; Radio-France. Direction France culture; Soziokultur; Civilization; Politische Identität; Social conditions; Kultur; Radio-France; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Variations on the hexagon : getting the measure of culture change in contemporary France / Murray Pratt, Alistair Rolls; title: The global nostalgia of a non-global language / Rada Iveković; title: Frenchness in perspective(s) / Brigitte Jandey; title: National genius and universal sociability : the relevance of the Enlightenment today / Jean-Marc Kehrès, translated by Alistair Rolls; title: So over the rainbow? : the singular plurality of Martineau and Ducastel's Drôle de Félix / Joe Hardwick; title: Youth speech au pluriel in the written press / Monique Monville-Burston; title: Integration or interaction? : disability in France today / Sam Haigh; title: Racaille versus flics : who's to blame for criminality and delinquency in Franco-Maghrébine (beur) fiction? / Hélène Jaccomard; title: "Je ne suis pas noir " : global football and (post)colonial France / Francesco Ricatti; title: Tos ethnic identity in France through the blogs of young people of Portuguese descent / Martine Fernandes, translated by Murray Pratt; title: ^; title: The natives strike back : "L'appel des idigènes de la république" and the death of republican values in post-colonial France / Kiran Grewal; title: Soukaz in a staccato mode / Lawrence R. Schehr; title: Hidden violences : work and the working class in recent French film / Martin O'Shaughnessy; title: May-June 1968 : reflector and vector of a nation's diversity : the case of Strasbourg, Alsace / Chris Reynolds; title: French unity and the European Union : the role of French regions / Angela Giovanangeli, translated by Travis Watters; title: Haunted Europe : Virilio and Sangatte / Russell West-Pavlov; title: A many splendoured thing? : plural visions of the city in "Paris, je t'aime" / Ben McCann; title: Belleville au pluriel : representations of a Parisian suburb in the néo-polar / Carolyn Stott; title: Concrete criticism : annotation and transformation in Haussmannized Paris / Katherine Gantz; title: On a postcolonial dialogue de sourds : exotisme in contemporary French criticism / Vladimir Kapor; title: ^; title: ^^; title: Postcolonial France : immigration and the de-centring of the hexagon / Fiona Barclay; title: Erasmus, exchange value and Euronormativity in Cédric Klapisch's "L'auberge espagnole" and "Les poupées russes" / Enda McCaffrey, Murray Pratt.; title: ^^