Transcultural Teens Performing Youth Identities in French Cites New Directions in Ethnography Series
Auteur : Tetreault Chantal
Transcultural Teens provides readers with a window onto the cultural and linguistic creativity of the housing projects, or cité, 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
Acknowledgments vi
Introduction: Performing Transcultural Youth Identities 1
1 Ethnography in les Cités 8
2 Speech in the Cité: Style and Stigma 34
3 “Sans Problème” or “Cent Problèmes”? Revoicing Stereotypes about les Arabes 58
4 La Racaille and le Respect 91
5 “You Call That a Girl?”: Gender Crossing and Borderwork 114
6 Parental Name-Calling 154
7 Crossing Registers: Voicing the French TV Host 172
Conclusion 195
References 200
Index 213
Undergraduate and graduate students in anthropology as well as a range of social sciences featuring courses on migration, transnationalism and globalization; students and scholars studying the interplay of identity, culture, and language; students taking regionally focused courses on North Africa or the Middle East, European or French Studies.
Date de parution : 05-2015
Ouvrage de 232 p.
15.2x23 cm
Date de parution : 07-2015
Ouvrage de 232 p.
15.8x23.6 cm
Mots-clés :
Transculture