In Ethnic Minority Women's Writing in France, Mouflard argues that
the identity politics surrounding the immigration discourse of
early twenty-first century France were reflected in the marketing
and editing practices of the Metropole's key publishers,
specifically with regards to non-white French women's literature.
Echoing the utopic "Black-Blanc-Beur" model of integration which
surfaced during the 1998 soccer World Cup, select publishers
fashioned unofficial literary categories based on neocolonial
racial and gender stereotypes, either lauding integrated "Beur"
authors or exploiting "Black" political dissenters. Concurrently,
metropolitan women writers in their autobiographies, autofictions,
and manifestoes, problematized notions of French multiculturalism
and literary hierarchies, thereby exposing the dangers of utopian
thinking. Mouflard ultimately reveals that the absence of the
Franco-Vietnamese identity from the "Black-Blanc-Beur" paradigm
enabled authors of Southeastern Asian origin to establish
themselves outside of the era's reductive multicultural utopia,
within a realm directly adjacent to litterature francaise, if not
in a newly-designed, truly multicultural French literature
category. Overall, Mouflard's research highlights the discrepancies
between France's official discourse on immigration, and the actual
identity formation processes created by the institutions and
exploited by influential publishers, in the years leading to the
historic 2005 banlieue civil unrest.
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