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Artistic (Self)-Representations of Islam and Muslims

Perspectives Across France and the Maghreb

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Editors:
  1. Ramona Mielusel

    1. Department of Modern Languages, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, USA

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  • Explores the artistic self-representation of Muslim religious and cultural identity in France and the Maghreb since 2000

  • Features a transnational and transversal set of artistic voices that invoke dissensus (Rancière)

  • Contributes to the fields of French and Francophone studies, humanities and global/cultural studies

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Introduction

    • Ramona Mielusel, Laura Reeck
    Pages 1-21

  3. Cinematic Representations of Islam: From Imams to Radicals

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23
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    2. Imams and Audience in Kaouther Ben Hania’s Niche Filmwork

      • Laura Reeck
      Pages 25-43

    3. Representations of Radical Islam in Merzak Allouache’s Most Recent Films

      • Nabil Boudraa
      Pages 45-60

    4. De-westernizing the Gaze on Islam and the Veil in French and Franco-Algerian Films

      • Delphine Letort, Abderrahmene Bourenane
      Pages 61-77

    5. Nicolas Boukhrief’s Made in France: Nuancing the Mediatized Approach to Islamic Terrorism

      • Patrick Saveau
      Pages 79-92

  5. Representations of Islam in Music, Comic Series and Visual Arts

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 165-165
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    2. (P)raising Islam: When French Muslim Rappers Advocate for Peace, Love, and Unity in a Multicultural France

      • David Yesaya
      Pages 167-183

    3. Drawing the Muslim Self: Muslim Citizenship and Contemporary Islam in France

      • Jennifer Howell
      Pages 185-203

    4. Franco-Maghrebi Perspectives on the Islamic “Body” in a Contemporary Artistic Context: Kader Attia and Zoulikha Boubdellah

      • Ramona Mielusel
      Pages 205-223

    5. Conclusion

      • Ramona Mielusel, Laura Reeck
      Pages 225-232

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 233-237
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About this book

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.





Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Modern Languages, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, USA

    Ramona Mielusel

About the editor

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).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Artistic (Self)-Representations of Islam and Muslims

  • Book Subtitle: Perspectives Across France and the Maghreb

  • Editors: Ramona Mielusel

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81234-8

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-81233-1Published: 27 November 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-81236-2Published: 28 November 2022

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-81234-8Published: 01 January 2022

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 237

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Media and Communication, Islam

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