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Acknowledgments
Part I. Rethinking the Discipline: From French Studies to French Cultural Studies
1. Identity Crises: France, Culture, and the Idea of the Nation
Lawrence D. Kritzman
2. Nana and the Nation: French Cultural Studies and Interdisciplinary Work
Jean E. Pedersen
3. On the Language-Culture Nexus
Ross 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 Ephemeral
Mireille Rosello
6. In Search of a Postmodern Ethics of Knowledge: The Cultural Critic's Dilemma
Michèle Druon
7. The "Popular" in Cultural Studies
Marie-Pierre Le Hir
Part II. Negotiating Postcolonial Identities: Beyond Disciplinary and Geographic Boundaries
8. Reframing Baudelaire: Literary History, Biography, Postcolonial Theory, and Vernacular Languages
Françoise Lionnet
9. Performance, Departmentalization, and Detour in the Writing of Patrick Chamoiseau
Cilas Kemedjio
10. Addicted to Race: Performativity, Agency, and Césaire's
A Tempest
Timothy Scheie
11. "Dark Continents" Collide: Race and Gender in Claire Denis's Chocolat
Dana Strand
12. Cette Enfant Blanche de L'Asie: Orientalism, Colonialism, and Métissage in Marguerite Duras's L'Amant
Jeanne Garane
13. African Intellectuals in France: Echoes of Senghor in Ngandu's Memoirs
Janice Spleth
14. Interdisciplinary, Knowledge, and Desire: A Reading of Marcel Griaule's Dieu d'eau
Leslie Rabine
15. Political Geography of Literature: On Khatibi's "Professional Traveller"
Réda Bensmaïa
Contributors
Index