Reimagining North African Immigration

<p>Taking the pulse of French post-coloniality, this volume invites the reader to explore the many different faces of Frenchness at the dawn of the twenty-first century. The essays explore the challenges and hopes facing the multicultural country of today, in relation to the legacies of its colonial past. <br/><br/>The contributors invoke the transformative powers of literature, film, and television, pleading for an honest and open recognition of the centrality of post-<em>beur</em> authors and directors on France’s cultural scene, and of their vital role in overcoming monocultural norms. The variety of approaches – sociological, historical, political, literary, and cultural – celebrates recent films, television programs, and novels produced by citizens of so-called ‘immigrant’ and North African heritage, who use French as their language of choice. <br/><br/>Located at the intersection of migration studies and diaspora studies, as well a