Engagement in 21st Century French and Francophone Culture
Countering Crises
Editor(s) Helena Chadderton,Angela Kimyongür
Language: English
Genre(s): Literary Criticism, Media, Film and Theatre
Series: French and Francophone Studies
- November 2017 · 272 pages ·216x138mm
- · Hardback - 9781786831187
- · eBook - pdf - 9781786831194
- · eBook - epub - 9781786831200
About The Book
Endorsements
‘The editors’ aim to open up debate about the nature of political commitment in French and Francophone culture today is effectively served by this well-focused, interesting and incisive collection of essays. Engagement with the contemporary world and its power structures is shown to be a driving force across an impressively wide and varied range of institutional and cultural practices.’
-Professor Margaret Atack, University of Leeds
'Any of the essays would easily stand alone for research or classroom use, and undergraduate and graduate students alike would likely appreciate and benefit from exposure to the wide range of source material employed here.'
- Kathryn Kleppinger, The George Washington University, H-France Review
Contents
List of Illustrations
Introduction - Helena Chadderton and Angela Kimyongür
Part 1: Culture in Crisis? Evolving Cultural Forms in the 21st Century
Chapter 1: Engagement in la fiction d’affaires: François Bon and Thierry Beinstingel. - Helena Chadderton
Chapter 2: Evolutions of engagement: Renaud and la chanson engagée in 21st-Century France. - Rachel Howarth
Chapter 3: ‘Radical’ Independent Presses in France at the Turn of the 21st Century: a New Form of Political and Intellectual engagement? - Sophie Noël
Chapter 4: Charity engagements: Television Coverage of Les Restos du Coeur and Les Enfoirés. - Chris Tinker
Chapter 5: Plantu: caricaturiste engagé? - Sam Wilkinson
Chapter 6: Criminal engagements: Dominique Manotti and the Politics of Crime Writing. - Angela Kimyongür
Part 2: New Responses to New Crises: France and the Francophone World in the 21st Century
Chapter 7: Crime and Comedy: Dominique Sylvain’s Ingrid Diesel and Lola Jost Series Post 9/11. - Andrea Hynynen
Chapter 8: Michel Houellebecq, Masculinity and the Manipulation of Crisis. - Clive Hunter
Chapter 9: Voicing the Silence: Exposing French Neo-Colonial History and Practices in Mathieu Pernot’s Les Migrants. - Sophie Watt
Chapter 10: Engagement au marteau: Michel Onfray’s Université Populaire. - Jean-Frédéric Hennuy
Chapter 11:
New Aesthetics of engagement: Fatou Diome’s Kétala. - Charlotte Baker