At the Border Margins and Peripheries in Modern France |
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| Editor:
| Gemie, Sharif
Altink, Henrice |
| Series title: | French and Francophone Studies |
| ISBN: | 978-0-7083-2076-1 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2008 |
| Publisher: | Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru / University of Wales Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $11.00 |
Book Description:
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For decades, France has been considered one of the world's first and most fully formed nation-states--providing a global model of state-centered modernity. Events in recent years, however, such as the long-term presence of France's North African population, the growth of Islam as France's second-largest religion, the development of anti-centrist regional movements, and growing debates about French sexual and social identities have endowed the theme of borders with a special...
More Description For decades, France has been considered one of the world's first and most fully formed nation-states--providing a global model of state-centered modernity. Events in recent years, however, such as the long-term presence of France's North African population, the growth of Islam as France's second-largest religion, the development of anti-centrist regional movements, and growing debates about French sexual and social identities have endowed the theme of borders with a special resonance in French studies.
This exciting interdisciplinary collection presents a series of perspectives on French border identities in the context of globalization, locating "border" situations in a variety of contexts--geographical, social, cultural, and sexual--that challenge preconceptions about the centrality of the nation-state as the foundation of contemporary French identity.