Ex-Centric Migrations : Europe and the Maghreb in Mediterranean Cinema, Literature, and Music
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| Title: | Ex-Centric Migrations : Europe and the Maghreb in Mediterranean Cinema, Literature, and Music |
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| Description: | 'Plunges the reader into a tour de force across radically divergent artistic responses to Mediterranean migration.'—Bulletin of Francophone Postcolonial Studies Ex-Centric Migrations examines cinematic, literary, and musical representations of migrants and migratory trends in the western Mediterranean. Focusing primarily on clandestine sea-crossings, Hakim Abderrezak shows that despite labor and linguistic ties with the colonizer, migrants from the Maghreb (Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia) no longer systematically target France as a destination, but instead aspire toward other European countries, notably Spain and Italy. In addition, the author investigates other migratory patterns that entail the repatriation of émigrés. His analysis reveals that the films, novels, and songs of Mediterranean artists run contrary to mass media coverage and conservative political discourse, bringing a nuanced vision and expert analysis to the sensationalism and biased reportage of such events as the Mediterranean maritime tragedies.'Ex-Centric Migrations is crucial reading for scholars and students of contemporary Maghrebi, French, and Spanish literatures and cultures. It breaks new ground by encompassing the literature, film, and music of'return migration'and examining the trajectories of Maghrebi migration outside France.'—H-France'Hakim Abderrezak convincingly illustrates how politically committed artistic practices serve to humanize the challenges of human migration, and in the process dramatically improves our understanding of the complex cultural, economic, political, and social realities that shape 21st-century existence.'—Dominic Thomas, author of Africa and France: Postcolonial Cultures, Migration, and Racism |
| Authors: | Hakim Abderrezak |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | North Africans in motion pictures, North Africans in literature, Immigrants in motion pictures, Immigrants in literature, Emigration and immigration in motion pictures, Emigration and immigration in literature, Music--History and criticism.--Mediterranean R |
| Categories: | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / African Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | 'Plunges the reader into a tour de force across radically divergent artistic responses to Mediterranean migration.'—Bulletin of Francophone Postcolonial Studies Ex-Centric Migrations examines cinematic, literary, and musical representations of migrants and migratory trends in the western Mediterranean. Focusing primarily on clandestine sea-crossings, Hakim Abderrezak shows that despite labor and linguistic ties with the colonizer, migrants from the Maghreb (Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia) no longer systematically target France as a destination, but instead aspire toward other European countries, notably Spain and Italy. In addition, the author investigates other migratory patterns that entail the repatriation of émigrés. His analysis reveals that the films, novels, and songs of Mediterranean artists run contrary to mass media coverage and conservative political discourse, bringing a nuanced vision and expert analysis to the sensationalism and biased reportage of such events as the Mediterranean maritime tragedies.'Ex-Centric Migrations is crucial reading for scholars and students of contemporary Maghrebi, French, and Spanish literatures and cultures. It breaks new ground by encompassing the literature, film, and music of'return migration'and examining the trajectories of Maghrebi migration outside France.'—H-France'Hakim Abderrezak convincingly illustrates how politically committed artistic practices serve to humanize the challenges of human migration, and in the process dramatically improves our understanding of the complex cultural, economic, political, and social realities that shape 21st-century existence.'—Dominic Thomas, author of Africa and France: Postcolonial Cultures, Migration, and Racism |
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| ISBN: | 9780253020659 9780253020758 9780253020789 |
