The first comprehensive survey of its kind in English, this book
examines the experience of immigration as represented by authors
who moved to France from the Caribbean, the Maghreb, sub-Saharan
Africa, and Asia after World War II. Essays by expert contributors
address the literary productions of different ethnic groups while
taking into account generational differences and the effects of
class and gender. The focus on immigration, a subject which has
moved to the center of many sensitive social and political debates,
raises questions related to cultural hybridity, identity politics,
border writing, and the status of minority literature within the
traditional literary canon, all of which constitute vital areas of
research in literary, cultural, and historical studies today.
Included are broad socio-historical chapters on general topics
related to immigration, along with chapters providing detailed
readings of specific texts and authors. A key objective of the book
is to consider the ways in which literary texts by authors of
immigrant origin explore what it means to be French, and how these
works shape debates about French national and cultural identity.
The contributors discuss such issues as cultural hybridity,
linguistic identity, and the textualization and theorization of
otherness.
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