Hexagonal Variations.

Table of Contents Acknowledgements Jo McCormack, Murray Pratt and Alistair Rolls: Towards a Preface Murray Pratt and Alistair Rolls: Variations on the Hexagon: Getting the Measure of Culture Change in Contemporary France Section 1: Perspectives on Hexagonality Rada Ivekovic: The Global Nostalgia of a Non-global Language Brigitte Jandey: Frenchness in Perspective(s) Jean-Marc Kehrès (Translated by Alistair Rolls): National Genius and Universal Sociability: The Relevance of the Enlightenment Today Section 2: Expressing Plurality Joe Hardwick: So Over the Rainbow? The Singular Plurality of Martineau and Ducastel's Drôle de Félix Monique Monville-Burston: Youth Speech au pluriel in the Written Press Sam Haigh: Integration or Interaction? Disability in France Today Section 3: Identity and Ethnicity Hélène Jaccomard: Racaille versus Flics? Who's to Blame for Criminality and Delinquency in Franco-Maghrébine (Beur) Fiction? Francesco Ricatti: 'Je ne suis pas noir': Global Football and (Post)Colonial France Martine Fernandes (Translated by Murray Pratt): Tos Ethnic Identity in France through the Blogs of Young People of Portuguese Descent Section 4: Measuring Cultural Change in Contemporary France Kiran Grewal: The Natives Strike Back: 'L'Appel des Idigènes de la République' and the Death of Republican Values in Post-colonial France Lawrence R. Schehr: Soukaz in a Staccato Mode Martin O'Shaughnessy: Hidden Violences: Work and the Working Class in Recent French Film Section 5: Reordering Regionality Chris Reynolds: May-June 1968. Reflector and Vector of a Nation's Diversity: The Case of Strasbourg, Alsace Angela Giovanangeli (Translated by Travis Watters): French Unity and the European Union: The Role of French Regions Russell West-Pavlov: Haunted Europe: Virilio and Sangatte Section 6: Paris au pluriel Ben McCann: A Many Splendoured Thing? Plural Visions of the City in Paris, je t'aime Carolyn Stott: Belleville au pluriel: Representations of a Parisian Suburb in the Néo-Polar Katherine Gantz: Concrete Criticism: Annotation and Transformation in Haussmannized Paris Section 7: Hexagonal Variations Vladimir Kapor: On a Postcolonial Dialogue de Sourds: Exotisme in Contemporary French Criticism Fiona Barclay: Postcolonial France: Immigration and the De-Centring of the Hexagon Enda McCaffrey and Murray Pratt: Erasmus, Exchange Value and Euronormativity in Cédric Klapisch's L'Auberge espagnole and Les Poupées russes Contributors' Biographies Index