Véronique Machelidon & Patrick Saveau 
Reimagining North African immigration 
Identities in flux in French literature, television, and film

Introduction – Véronique Machelidon and Patrick Saveau
1 ‘Qui fait la France?’ New configurations of Frenchness in contemporary urban fiction – Steve Puig
2 Breaking the chains of ethnic identity: Faïza Guène, Saphia Azzeddine, and Nadia Bouzid, or the birth of a new Maghrebi-French women’s literature – Patrick Saveau
3 From daughter to mother, from sister to brother: building identities in Faïza Guène’s novels – Florina Matu
4 The immigrant in Abdellatif Kechiche’s cinematic work: transcending the question of origins – Emna Mrabet
5 Seeking paths to existence in Rachid Djaïdani’s Rengaine – Mona El Khoury
6 Beur and banlieue television comedies: new perspectives on immigration – Caroline Fache
7 They had a dream: out-marching exclusion and hatred – Jimia Boutouba
8 Narrativizing foreclosed history in ‘postmemorial’ fiction of the Algerian War in France: October 17, 1961, a case in point – Michel Laronde
9 Unearthing the father’s secret: postmemory and identity in harki and pied-noir narratives – Véronique Machelidon
10 Representations of the harkis in contemporary French-language films – Susan Ireland
11 ‘L’oued revient toujours dans son lit’: Franco-Maghrebi identity in Hassan Legzouli’s film Ten’ja – Ramona Mielusel
12 Rewriting the memory of immigration: Samuel Zaoui’s Saint Denis bout du monde – Mireille Le Breton
13 Harragas in Mediterranean illiterature and cinema – Hakim Abderrezak
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