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Race on Display in 20th- and 21st Century France (Hardcover)
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Race on Display in 20th- and 21st Century France (Hardcover)
Series: Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures, 42
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An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool
University Press website and through Knowledge Unlatched. In Race
on Display in 20th- and 21st-Century France Knox turns the tables
France's rhetoric of 'internal otherness', asking her reader not to
spot those deemed France's others but rather to deconstruct the
very gazes that produce them. Weaving together a vast corpus of
colonial French children's comics, Francophone novels, and African
popular music, fashion, and dance, Knox traces how the ways
colonial 'human zoos' invited their French spectators to gaze on
their colonized others still inform the frameworks through which
racial and ethnic minorities are made-and make themselves-visible
in contemporary France. In addition to analyzing how literature and
music depicting immigrants and their descendants in France make
race and ethnicity visible, Knox also illustrates how the works she
analyzes self-reflexively ask whether they, as commodities sold
within wider cultural marketplaces, perpetuate the culture of
exoticism they seek to contest. Finally, Knox contends that to take
seriously the way the texts interrogate the relationship between
power, privilege, and the gaze also requires reconsidering the
visions of normalcy from which racial and ethnic minorities
supposedly depart. She thus concludes by exposing a critical 'blind
spot' in French cultural studies-whiteness-before subjecting it to
the same scrutiny France's 'visible minorities' face.
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