Reimagining North African immigration: Identities in flux in French literature, television, and film

Introduction -- 1. 'qui Fait La France?' New Configurations Of Frenchness In Contemporary Urban Fiction -- 2. Breaking The Chains Of Ethnic Identity: Faïza Guène, Saphia Azzeddine, And Nadia Bouzid, Or The Birth Of A New Maghrebi-french Women's Literature -- 3. From Daughter To Mother, From Sister To Brother: Building Identities In Faïza Guène's Novels -- 4. The Immigrant In Abdellatif Kechiche's Cinematic Work: Transcending The Question Of Origins -- 5. Seeking Paths To Existence In Rachid Djaïdani's Rengaine -- 6. Beur And Banlieue Television Comedies: New Perspectives On Immigration -- 7. They Had A Dream: Out-marching Exclusion And Hatred -- 8. Narrativizing Foreclosed History In 'postmemorial' Fiction Of The Algerian War In France: October 17, 1961, A Case In Point -- 9. Unearthing The Father's Secret: Postmemory And Identity In Harki And Pied Noir Narratives -- 10. Representations Of The Harkis In Contemporary French-language Films -- 11. 'l'oued Revient Toujours Dans Son Lit': Franco-maghrebi Identity In Hassan Legzouli's Film Ten'ja -- 12. Rewriting The Memory Of Immigration: Samuel Zaoui's Saint Denis Bout Du Monde -- 13. Harragas In Mediterranean Illiterature And Cinema -- Index. Edited By Véronique Machelidon, Patrick Saveau. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Electronic Reproduction. Baltimore, Md Available Via World Wide Web. In English.