BOOK
Engagement in 21st Century French and Francophone Culture
Helena Chadderton | Angela Kimyongür
(2017)
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Abstract
In the face of the contested legacy of engagement in the Francophone context, this interdisciplinary collection demonstrates that French and Francophone writers, artists, intellectuals and film-makers are using their work to confront unforeseen and unprecedented challenges, campaigns and causes in a politically uncertain post-9/11 world. Composed of eleven essays and a contextualising introduction, this volume is interdisciplinary in its treatment of engagement in a variety of forms, as it reassesses the relationship between different types of cultural production and society as it is played out in the twenty-first century. With a focus on both the development of different cultural forms (Part 1) and on the particular crises that have attracted the attention of cultural practitioners (Part 2), this volume maps and analyses some of the ways in which cultural texts of all kinds are being used to respond to, engage with and challenge crises in the contemporary Francophone world.
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Front Cover | Front Cover | ||
| Title Page | iii | ||
| Copyright Page | iv | ||
| Contents | v | ||
| Series Editors’ Preface | vii | ||
| List of illustrations | ix | ||
| Notes on contributors | xi | ||
| Introduction: Engagement in Twenty-first-century French and Francophone Culture: Countering Crises | 1 | ||
| Part 1: Culture in Crisis? Evolving Cultural Forms in the Twenty-first Century | 11 | ||
| Chapter 1: Engagement in la fiction d’affaires: François Bon and Thierry Beinstingel | 13 | ||
| Chapter 2: Evolutions of engagement: Renaud and la chanson engagée in Twenty-first-century France | 28 | ||
| Chapter 3: ‘Radical’ Independent Presses in France at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century: A New Form of Political and Intellectual engagement? | 48 | ||
| Chapter 4: Charity Engagements: Television Coverage of Les Restos du Coeur and Les Enfoirés | 67 | ||
| Chapter 5: Plantu and the 2012 presidential election: un caricaturiste engagé? | 85 | ||
| Chapter 6: Dominique Manotti and the Politics of Crime Writing | 107 | ||
| Part 2: New Responses to New Crises: France and the Francophone World in the Twenty-first Century | 127 | ||
| Chapter 7: Crime and Comedy: Dominique Sylvain’s Ingrid Diesel and Lola Jost Series Post-9/11 | 129 | ||
| Chapter 8: Michel Houellebecq, Masculinity and the Manipulation of Crisis | 152 | ||
| Chapter 9: Voicing the Silence: Exposing French Neo-colonial History and Practices in Mathieu Pernot’s Les Migrants | 171 | ||
| Chapter 10: Engagement au marteau: Michel Onfray’s Université Populaire | 195 | ||
| Chapter 11: New Aesthetics of Engagement: Fatou Diome’s Kétala | 214 | ||
| Index | 231 | ||
| Back Cover | Back Cover |