French Cultural Studies

Marie-Pierre Le Hir is Treuhaft Associate Professor of French at Case Western Reserve University. Dana Strand is Professor of French at Carleton College, Minnesota, and is the author of Colette: A Study of the Short Fiction.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgments Part I. Rethinking the Discipline: From French Studies to French Cultural Studies 1. Identity Crises: France, Culture, and the Idea of the NationLawrence D. Kritzman 2. Nana and the Nation: French Cultural Studies and Interdisciplinary WorkJean E. Pedersen 3. On the Language-Culture NexusRoss Chambers 4. Creolized North Africa: What Do They Really Speak in the Maghreb?Alawa Toumi 5. Rap Music and French Cultural Studies: For an Ethics of the EphemeralMireille Rosello 6. In Search of a Postmodern Ethics of Knowledge: The Cultural Critic's DilemmaMichèle Druon 7. The "Popular" in Cultural StudiesMarie-Pierre Le Hir Part II. Negotiating Postcolonial Identities: Beyond Disciplinary and Geographic Boundaries 8. Reframing Baudelaire: Literary History, Biography, Postcolonial Theory, and Vernacular LanguagesFrançoise Lionnet 9. Performance, Departmentalization, and Detour in the Writing of Patrick ChamoiseauCilas Kemedjio 10. Addicted to Race: Performativity, Agency, and Césaire's A TempestTimothy Scheie 11. "Dark Continents" Collide: Race and Gender in Claire Denis's ChocolatDana Strand 12. Cette Enfant Blanche de L'Asie: Orientalism, Colonialism, and Métissage in Marguerite Duras's L'AmantJeanne Garane 13. African Intellectuals in France: Echoes of Senghor in Ngandu's MemoirsJanice Spleth 14. Interdisciplinary, Knowledge, and Desire: A Reading of Marcel Griaule's Dieu d'eauLeslie Rabine 15. Political Geography of Literature: On Khatibi's "Professional Traveller"Réda Bensmaïa ContributorsIndex

"A collection of this type on French Cultural Studies is a very welcome and necessary publication, at a time when the field is well established, particularly in North American universities." — Michel Laronde, The University of Iowa