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Rethinking French identity through literature : the case of four 21st century novels, by Virginie Bleneau

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In France, the present moment intensifies a strong, at times violent, identity crisis that the nation has been suffering for the past thirty years, and which has been largely attributed to the immigration policies of the 1960s and 1970s. In this dissertation, however, I argue that this crisis is not simply the effect of immigration, but rather the result of a conservative strand of Republicanism and its attendant colonial ideology within France. I analyze four novels JMG Le Clézio's Révolutions (2003), Alexis Jenni's L'Art français de la guerre (2011), Azouz Begag's Le Marteau pique-coeur (2004), and Éliette Abécassis's Sépharade (2009) that show that the current state of affairs stems from Frances post-Revolutionary interpretation of the ideal of equality. My analysis of texts that represent fractures in, and challenges to, French national identity is largely informed by postcolonial theory because the writings of scholars such as Homi Bhabha, Frantz Fanon, Édouard Glissant, Alec Hargreaves, Michel Laronde, Edward Said, and Gayatri Spivak offer a methodological framework through which the complicated interaction between the individual and the forces that participate in the construction of individual and group identities can be understood. According to these theorists, identities are produced out of relations of conflict, oppression, and assimilation, between a dominant ideology (here, French Republicanism) and the individual's multiple local, regional, religious, or international allegiances
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1 online resource (ii, 217 pages)
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  • "A Dissertation presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School at the University of Missouri-Columbia In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy."
  • Dissertation supervisor: Dr. Valerie Kaussen
  • Includes vita
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Rethinking French identity through literature : the case of four 21st century novels
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Rethinking French identity through literature
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the case of four 21st century novels
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by Virginie Bleneau
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eng
Summary
In France, the present moment intensifies a strong, at times violent, identity crisis that the nation has been suffering for the past thirty years, and which has been largely attributed to the immigration policies of the 1960s and 1970s. In this dissertation, however, I argue that this crisis is not simply the effect of immigration, but rather the result of a conservative strand of Republicanism and its attendant colonial ideology within France. I analyze four novels JMG Le Clézio's Révolutions (2003), Alexis Jenni's L'Art français de la guerre (2011), Azouz Begag's Le Marteau pique-coeur (2004), and Éliette Abécassis's Sépharade (2009) that show that the current state of affairs stems from Frances post-Revolutionary interpretation of the ideal of equality. My analysis of texts that represent fractures in, and challenges to, French national identity is largely informed by postcolonial theory because the writings of scholars such as Homi Bhabha, Frantz Fanon, Édouard Glissant, Alec Hargreaves, Michel Laronde, Edward Said, and Gayatri Spivak offer a methodological framework through which the complicated interaction between the individual and the forces that participate in the construction of individual and group identities can be understood. According to these theorists, identities are produced out of relations of conflict, oppression, and assimilation, between a dominant ideology (here, French Republicanism) and the individual's multiple local, regional, religious, or international allegiances
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Bléneau, Virginie
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Ph. D.
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2015.
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government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
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University of Missouri--Columbia
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non fiction
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1963-
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Kaussen, Valerie
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  • Emigration and immigration
  • Republicanism
  • Nationalism
  • Postcolonialism in literature
  • France
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Rethinking French identity through literature : the case of four 21st century novels, by Virginie Bleneau
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  • Abstract from short.pdf file
  • "A Dissertation presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School at the University of Missouri-Columbia In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy."
  • Dissertation supervisor: Dr. Valerie Kaussen
  • Includes vita
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 208-216)
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1 online resource (ii, 217 pages)
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(OCoLC)963227901
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Rethinking French identity through literature : the case of four 21st century novels, by Virginie Bleneau
Publication
Copyright
Note
  • Abstract from short.pdf file
  • "A Dissertation presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School at the University of Missouri-Columbia In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy."
  • Dissertation supervisor: Dr. Valerie Kaussen
  • Includes vita
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 208-216)
Carrier category
online resource
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  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
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  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
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963227901
Extent
1 online resource (ii, 217 pages)
Form of item
online
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)963227901

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