Full Description
In the face of the contested legacy of engagement in the Francophone context, this interdisciplinary collection demonstrates that French and Francophone writers, artists, intellectuals and film-makers are using their work to confront unforeseen and unprecedented challenges, campaigns and causes in a politically uncertain post-9/11 world. Composed of eleven essays and a contextualising introduction, this volume is interdisciplinary in its treatment of engagement in a variety of forms, as it reassesses the relationship between different types of cultural production and society as it is played out in the twenty-first century. With a focus on both the development of different cultural forms (Part 1) and on the particular crises that have attracted the attention of cultural practitioners (Part 2), this volume maps and analyses some of the ways in which cultural texts of all kinds are being used to respond to, engage with and challenge crises in the contemporary Francophone world.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Introduction - Helena Chadderton and Angela Kimyongür
Part 1: Culture in Crisis? Evolving Cultural Forms in the 21st Century
Chapter 1: Engagement in la fiction d'affaires: François Bon and Thierry Beinstingel. - Helena Chadderton
Chapter 2: Evolutions of engagement: Renaud and la chanson engagée in 21st-Century France. - Rachel Howarth
Chapter 3: 'Radical' Independent Presses in France at the Turn of the 21st Century: a New Form of Political and Intellectual engagement? - Sophie Noël
Chapter 4: Charity engagements: Television Coverage of Les Restos du Coeur and Les Enfoirés. - Chris Tinker
Chapter 5: Plantu: caricaturiste engagé? - Sam Wilkinson
Chapter 6: Criminal engagements: Dominique Manotti and the Politics of Crime Writing. - Angela Kimyongür
Part 2: New Responses to New Crises: France and the Francophone World in the 21st Century
Chapter 7: Crime and Comedy: Dominique Sylvain's Ingrid Diesel and Lola Jost Series Post 9/11. - Andrea Hynynen
Chapter 8: Michel Houellebecq, Masculinity and the Manipulation of Crisis. - Clive Hunter
Chapter 9: Voicing the Silence: Exposing French Neo-Colonial History and Practices in Mathieu Pernot's Les Migrants. - Sophie Watt
Chapter 10: Engagement au marteau: Michel Onfray's Université Populaire. - Jean-Frédéric Hennuy
Chapter 11:
New Aesthetics of engagement: Fatou Diome's Kétala. - Charlotte Baker
