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State Power, Stigmatization, and Youth Resistance Culture in the French Banlieues: Uncanny Citizenship foregrounds the literary, sociological, and political structures of urban literature in France. It uses postcolonial theory, sociology, and political philosophy to investigate the modalities surrounding the question of citizenship in a country where citizens of African descent are not only considered a threat to national identity, but also caught between inclusion and exclusion. By examining the literary, sociological, and political structures of urban literatures produced after the 2005 riots, this book interrogates the questions of citizenship, belonging, and coexistence in a context where literature from the "periphery" has become a site where "central" political power and "mainstream" French literary canons are contested. Moreover, these productions clearly reveal an unexplored correlation between geo-aesthetics and contemporary French national geopolitics. Ultimately, this book is a plea for a serious approach to social formation in postcolonial France in a way that transcends skin color, and instead is based on a shared colonial past, as well as current social disqualifications.
Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter one: Introduction: Writing (from) the Banlieues
Chapter Two: Criminal Identities
Banlieue Parades
Violence, Alterity on the Inside, and Second-Class Citizenship
Chapter Three: Recasting Juvenile Delinquency
Chronicle of Youth in the Galley
From Social Disqualification to Delinquency
Chapter Four: The Islamist Threat
Terrorist in spite of Himself: The Amalgamation of Religion, Ethnicity, and Topography
The Enemy Within: Islam and Integration in France
Chapter Five: The Feminist Metaphor
Oderint Dum Metuant: Feminine Revolt, Urban (Dis) Order, and Rights of Citizenship
Transgressive Women, Gender Democracy, and Rediscovery of the Ordinary in the Banlieues
Conclusion: Urban Riots and Youth Resistance in the Banlieue: Towards a Coming Community
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