Negotiating Arab-Muslim Identity, Contested Citizenship, and Gender Ideologies in the Parisian Housing Projects
Faïza Guène's Kiffe kiffe demain
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9250039 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mehta Mehta (Mills College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 173 |
| Publication date | 2010-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Research in African Literatures (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0034-5210 • E-ISSN: 1527-2044 |
| Publisher | Indiana University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2979/ral.2010.41.2.173 |
| OpenAlex | W2022919220 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 9 |
Faiza Guene's Kiffe kiffe demain describes the coming-of-age experiences of Doria, a second-generation Franco-Maghrebi, or beur, adolescent of Moroccan origin, who lives in an economically and socially disfavored Parisian housing project. Doria's abandonment by her father, who abruptly leaves for Morocco to marry a younger woman capable of giving him a male heir, provides the novel's focus: a simultaneous critique of Maghrebi, or North African, patriarchy and a searing indictment of the socioeconomic and political dis- enfranchisement experienced by the residents of the other France, namely, Maghrebi Arab-Muslim working-class immigrants and their French-born beur children. This paper demonstrates how the protagonist's negotiation of biculturality exposes the hypocrisy of the French secularizing mission, in which all markers of difference are suspect until they are assimilated into a homogeneous ideal of sameness. At the same time, social oppression produces a vibrant vernacular culture in the projects as a contestation of second-class citizenship, racialization, and mediated representation
Aesthetics · Art · Citizenship · Identity (music) · Ideology · Negotiation · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture · Gender Studies · Law · Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender · North African History and Literature
| Citations per year | 0.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2016 - 2020 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |