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Hervé Tchumkam

State Power, Stigmatization, and Youth Resistance Culture in the French Banlieues: Uncanny Citizenship

State Power, Stigmatization, and Youth Resistance Culture in the French Banlieues: Uncanny Citizenship

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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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Tchumkam, Hervé
Published: 04/11/2019
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 9781498504768
Pages: 206
Weight: 0.64lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.44d
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