Artistic (Self)-Representations of Islam and Muslims: Perspectives Across France and the Maghreb

by Ramona Mielusel (Editor)

Overview

Artistic (Self)-Representations of Islam and Muslims: Perspectives Across France and the Maghreb is a collection of essays that explores the question of artistic representation(s)/self-representation(s) of Muslim religious and cultural identity in France, the Maghreb and in/between since the 2000s. The volume offers a plurality of feminine and masculine voices and points of view on cultural Islam (Franco-French, Franco-Maghrebi, Maghrebi), all the while addressing the impact of events like 9/11, the tragic attacks in France in 2015-2016 (Charlie Hebdo, Stade de France, Bataclan, Nice), and the Arab Spring. Taken together, the volume features a transnational and transversal set of artistic voices that are not looking for consensus, but rather invoke dissensus (Rancière) and a full range of expression. A necessary part of that full range of expression is (self)-representations: Muslims representing themselves, though this is no facile (self)-representations, as artists continue to use the properties of the imagination and performance to complexify an easy reading, reductive meaning, or oversimplified interpretation.

This interdisciplinary study contributes to the fields of French and Francophone Studies, Humanities and Global/Cultural Studies such as political studies, sociology, political philosophy, literature, cinema, visual arts and media studies with a focus on broadening views on the topic of Islam and Muslim (self)-representations across disciplines.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783030812348
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	01/01/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	945 KB

About the Author

Ramona Mielusel is Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. She is interested in interdisciplinary and comparative approaches to Contemporary French and Francophone Cultural Studies with a special focus on immigration, transnationalism, multiculturalism, postcolonial studies and identity politics. She is the author of Langue, espace et (re)composition identitaire dans les oeuvres de Mehdi Charef, Farid Boudjellal et Tony Gatlif (L’Harmattan, 2015) and Franco-Maghrebi Artists of the 2000s. Transnational Narratives and Identities (Brill Publishers, 2018) as well as of several articles and book chapters. She co-edited with Dr. Simona Emilia Pruteanu the volume Citizenship and Belonging in France and North America. Multicultural Perspectives on Political, Cultural and Artistic Representations of Immigration (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020).

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Part I: Cinematic Representations of Islam: From Imams to Radicals.- Chapter 2: Imams and Audience in Kaouther Ben Hania’s Niche Filmwork.- Chapter 3: Representations of Radical Islam in Merzak Allouache’s most Recent Films.- Chapter 4: De-westernizing the Gaze on Islam and the Veil in French and Franco-Algerian Films – Abderrahmene Bourenane and Delphine Letort.- Chapter 5: Nicolas Boukhrief’s Made in France: Nuancing the Mediatized Approach to Islamic Terrorism.- Part II: Veiling, Islamic and Artistic Symbols and Far-Right Politics in Literary Representations of Islam and Muslims.- Chapter 6: Jeux de rubans (2011) by Emna Belhaj Yahia or the (Un)Veiling of Modern Tunisia.- Chapter 7: Eclipsing the Sun in Amira-Géhanne Khalfallah’s Le Naufrage de La Lune: Re-Appropriating Islamic Power Dynamics Through Allegory and Self-Representation.- Chapter 8: In Praise of the Transgressive Muslim Body: Portraits of Moroccan Chikhates.- Chapter 9: Islam and Far-Right Politics in Post-Contemporary Francophone Speculative Fiction: An Ethical Call to Resistance or Revival of French Orientalism?.- Part III: Representations of Islam in Music, Comic Series and Visual Arts.- Chapter 10: (P)raising Islam: When French Muslim rappers advocate for peace, love and unity in a Multicultural France.- Chapter 11: Drawing the Muslim Self: Muslim Citizenship and Contemporary Islam in France.- Chapter 12: Franco-Maghrebi Perspectives on the Islamic “Body” in a Contemporary Artistic Context: Kader Attia and Zoulikha Boubdellah.- Chapter 13: Conclusion.