Views from the Margins : Creating Identities in Modern France

Curtis, Sarah A. (EDT)/ Callahan, Kevin J. (EDT)

University of Nebraska Press（2009/01発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 277 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780803215597
• DDC分類 944

Full Description

What does it mean to be French? What constitutes "Frenchness"? Is it birth, language, attachment to republicanism, adherence to cultural norms? In contemporary France, these questions resonate in light of the large number of non-French and non-European immigrants, many from former French colonies, who have made France home in recent decades. Historically, French identity has long been understood as the product of a centralized state and culture emanating from Paris that was itself central to European history and civilization. Likewise, French identity in terms of class, gender, nationality, and religion mainly has been explained as a strong, indivisible core, against which marginal actors have been defined.
This collection of essays offers examples drawn from an imperial history of France that show the power of the periphery to shape diverse and dynamic modern French identities at its center. Each essay explains French identity as a fluid process rather than a category into which French citizens (and immigrants) are expected to fit. In using a core/periphery framework to explore identity creation, Views from the Margins breaks new ground in bringing together diverse historical topics from politics, religion, regionalism, consumerism, nationalism, and gendered aspects of civic and legal engagement.

Contents

Introduction Kevin J. Callahan and Sarah A. Curtis 1. Missionary Utopias: Anne-Marie Javouhey and the Colony at Mana, French Guiana, 18271848 Sarah A. Curtis 2. Marcel Lefebvre in Gabon: Revival, Missionaries, and the Colonial Roots of Catholic Traditionalism Jeremy Rich 3. Marketing in the Metropole: Colonial Rubber Plantations and French Consumerism in the Early Twentieth Century Stephen L. Harp 4. Exorcising Algeria: French Citizens, the War, and the Remaking of National Identity in the Rhone-Alpes, 19541962 Lee Whitfield 5. Autonomy or Colony: The Politics of Alsace's Relationship to France in the Interwar Era Samuel Huston Goodfellow 6. The "True" French Worker Party: The Problem of French Sectarianism and Identity Politics in the Second International, 18891900 Kevin J. Callahan 7. Sex and the Citizen: Reproductive Manuals and Fashionable Readers in Napoleonic France, 17991808 Sean M. Quinlan 8. Gender and the Creation of the French Intellectual: The Case of the Revue de Morale Sociale, 18991903 Anne R. Epstein 9. Family Dramas: Paternity, Divorce, and Adultery, 19171945 Rachel G. Fuchs The Writings of William B. Cohen Contributors