Mixed Feelings in France: White Femininity and Métissage in French Multicultural Comedy

Ewelina Pepiak

Published by transcript Verlag 2024

Mixed Feelings in France

White Femininity and Métissage in French Multicultural Comedy

Ewelina Pepiak

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https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839473931

About this book

While multicultural comedies criticise hegemonic whiteness and outdated stances on race relations, they simultaneously perpetuate the colonial aesthetic register by deploying a »republican gaze« - an ironic meta-narrative perspective on ethnic minorities. Ewelina Pepiak analyses how gender and ethnicity are represented in seven contemporary French comedies (2008-2018) including mixed-race couples, focusing on a trope of métissage (biological and cultural mixing) and white femininity. As analyses of ethnic and gender representations remain scarce due to the slow emergence of postcolonial studies in France, this study adds significant insights to the postcolonial debate.

Author / Editor information

Ewelina Pepiak, born in 1980, completed her doctorate at the Romance studies institute at the Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen and was a member of International PhD Programme Literary and Cultural Studies. From 2017-2023 she worked as a lecturer in literary, media and gender studies at Justus-Liebig-Universität and at TU Darmstadt. Her research interests focus on French postcolonial studies, especially critical whiteness studies in literary and film analyses.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
List of figures Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
Introduction
‘That’s just terrifying’: Multicultural France and its Representations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
Métissage and White Femininity in the French Representational Regime Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	16
French Multicultural Comedy: an Ambiguous Genre Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
Chapter Description Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
Reading White Femininity and Métissage in French Multicultural Comedy
Ethnic and Gender Stereotypes in Film Research Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
Postcolonial Theory in France Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	46
Critical Whiteness Studies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
Mixed Feelings: Methodological Investigation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
French and Black. Representations of Blackness and Métissage in Early Multicultural Comedies
White Femininity as a Narrative Vehicle in Agathe Cléry (Chatiliez, 2008) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	64
Representations of Blackness and Métissage in Lucien Jean-Baptiste’s La Première Étoile Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
Decomplexed Laughter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	100
Conclusion: Intersubjective Looking and Comic Effect Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	102
The Universalist Ambivalence of Métissage in Il reste du jambon?/Bacon on the Side (Depetrini, 2010)
Screening Islam and Métissage in French Multicultural Comedy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	106
Laughing Together? The Right to Cultural Incompetence Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
The Hierarchies of Gender Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
Conclusion: The Ambivalence of Universalist Rhetoric Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	132
Fortress France and the Limits of Love. Interethnic Spaces in Samba (Nakache and Toledano, 2014)
Métissage and Citizenship: The Aesthetics of Screening Undocumented Workers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
Samba, or the Ordinariness of Illegalised Immigration Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	140
Alice au pays des papiers.⁴⁹ White Femininity, Mental Health, and Community Work Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
Conclusion: Between Multicultural Comedy and Postcolonial Film Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
Stereotyping, Nostalgia, and Postmodern Irony in Philippe de Chauveron’s Qu’est-ce qu’on a fait au Bon Dieu?
Contested Aesthetics in Philippe de Chauveron’s Comedies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
The Hierarchies in Representing White Female Characters Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	176
Race, Male Gaze and Comic Relief Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
Conclusion: The Republican Perspective and Ambiguous Criticism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
Queering Multicultural Comedy. White Femininity and Métissage in Épouse-moi mon pote (Boudali 2017) and Les Goûts et les Couleurs (Aziza 2018)
Queerness in Multicultural Comedy and Neoliberal Rationale Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
Bromantic Tropes and Neoliberal Ideology in Épouse-moi mon pote (Boudali, 2017) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	212
The Limits of Queering in the Space of Multicultural Romantic Comedy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
‘C’est quoi une vraie lesbienne?’ Queerness, Unruliness, and Ethnic Stereotyping in Myriam Aziza’s Les Goûts et les Couleurs (Aziza, 2018) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	224
Conclusion: Retraditionalising White Femininity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	232
Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	237
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	245
Filmography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267

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Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 330
Keywords: Postcolonial Theory; Intersectionality; Critical Whiteness Studies; Métissage; White Femininity; French Multiculturalism; Republican Gaze; Film; Gender; Postcolonialism; Gender Studies; Romance Studies; Media Studies

eBook

Published: October 23, 2024
ISBN: 9783839473931

Mixed Feelings in France

White Femininity and Métissage in French Multicultural Comedy

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