Transcultural Teens: Performing Youth Identities in French Cites - Couverture rigide

Tetreault, Chantal

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1118388119 ISBN 13 : 9781118388112

Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell, 2015

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Quatrième de couverture

The housing projects that ring modern Paris are a highly fluid linguistic and cultural melting pot, where youth culture combines North African, French, and American elements in a constantly evolving mélange. Transcultural Teens provides readers with a window onto the cultural and linguistic creativity of the cités. It shows how young people of Algerian Arab origins play with language and culture in fascinating and revealing ways, and in so doing afford us keen insights into youth culture and globalization.

The author s observations demonstrate that, far from evincing the clash of civilizations so feared (and anticipated) by Western and Arab cultures, youth in Paris housing projects steadfastly occupy a progressive social crossroads where cultural ingredients from North African and European traditions are fused and thus transformed. The book contributes to an understanding of the emergent identities that arise through movement across geographic, cultural, and linguistic terrain, and includes vital commentary on the everyday experiences of young French Algerian women notably absent from scholarly publications and popular media alike. The author shows how the experience of growing up in a cité is one of spatial and racial marginalization within the national context of France, yet is nevertheless highly receptive to the frequent encounters with people, cultures, and modes of communication from a range of disparate sources.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Transcultural Teens provides readers with a window onto the cultural and linguistic creativity of the housing projects, or cité s, that ring Paris, showing how young people of Algerian Arab origins play with language in fascinating ways that subvert commonly held notions of intercultural animosity.

• Provides solid, real–world evidence in the often abstracted theoretical debate on globalization and transnationalism
• Offers detailed data on linguistic practices that is more focused than generalized anthropological studies
• Includes the experiences of French–Algerian adolescent girls who remain largely absent from academic and popular discourse
• Reveals the cultural richness and diversity of a population that is stigmatized and marginalized in a national context

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Wiley-Blackwell
• Date d'édition: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1118388119
• ISBN 13: 9781118388112
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 232