Immigrant Narratives in Contemporary France

SUSAN IRELAND is Professor of French at Grinnell College. Her research interests include contemporary French fiction, Quebec women writers, the Algerian novel, and the literature of immigration in France and Quebec. She was one of the editors of The Feminist Encyclopedia of French Literature (Greenwood, 1999).PATRICE J. PROULX is Professor of French and a member of the Women's Studies faculty at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Her research interests include the notion of identity and exile in the works of contemporary French and francophone women writers. Her articles have appeared in such journals as The French Review and Women in French, and she was one of the editors of The Feminist Encyclopedia of French Literature (Greenwood, 1999).

• Introduction Overview Perceptions of Ethnic Difference in Post-War France by Alec G. Hargreaves First-Generation Immigrant Narratives by Susan Ireland Writers of Maghrebi Origin Anamnesis and National Reconciliation: Re-membering October 17, 1961 by Anne Donadey Balancing Acts: Family and Integration in the Fiction of Franco-Maghrebi Women Writers by Patricia Geesey Translating Immigrant Identities in Mounsi's Territoire d'outre-ville by Susan Ireland Voices of Change: Interlanguage in Franco-Maghrebi Texts by Farida Abu-Haidar The Post-Colonial Writer between Anonymity and the Institution: Inscriptions of the Author in Chimo and Paul SmAIl by Michel Laronde Le Jeu de piste: Tracking Clues to the Emergence of Maghrebi-French Literature in Farida Belghoul's Georgette! by Mark McKinney On Natives and Narratives from the Banlieues by Sylvie Durmelat Caribbean Immigrant Narratives Negotiating the Metropole: Patterns of Exile and Cultural Survival in Gisele Pineau and Suzanne Dracius-Pinalie by H. Adlai Murdoch Textualizing the Immigrant Community: Francoise Ega's Lettres a une Noire by Patrice J. Proulx The African Dispora in France Writing New Identities: The African Diaspora in Paris by Odile Cazenave Daniel Biyaoula: Exile, Immigration, and Transnational Cultural Productions by Dominic Thomas Migrating Genders in Calixthe Beyala's Fiction by Nicki Hitchcott New Sans-papiers Rhetorics in Contemporary France by Mireille Rosello Vietnamese Fiction in French Linda Le and the Prosthesis of Origin by Martine Delvaux Tainted Blood: On Being Impure in Kim Lefevre's Metisse blanche and Retour a la saison des pluies by Ching Selao Selected Bibliography Index