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Race on display in 20th- and 21st-century France /

Race on Display in 20th- and 21st-Century France argues that the way France displayed its colonized peoples in the twentieth century continues to inform how minority authors and artists make immigrants and racial and ethnic minority populations visible in contemporary France.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Knox, Katelyn E.
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2016.
Series:Contemporary French and francophone cultures ; 42.
Subjects:
Race > Social aspects > France.
Race in literature > Minority authors.
Race in art.
France > Colonies > Africa.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > French.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Ancient & Classical.
French colonies.
Race in literature.
Race > Social aspects.
Africa.
France.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Civilized into the civilizing mission: the gaze, colonization, and exposition coloniale children's comics
  • Self-spectacularization and looking back on French history
  • Writing, literary Sape, and reading in Mabanckou's Black Bazar
  • Looking back on Afropea's Origins: Léonora Miano's Blues pour Elise as an Afropean mediascape
  • Anti-white racism without races: French rap, whiteness, and disciplinary institutionalized spectacularism.