Contemporary French and Francophone Studies/Sites

Volume 8, Issue 1

Banlieues (Part 1)

Winter 2004

Guest Co-Editor: Alec Hargreaves

Cover photo by Tadeusz Paczula

Interview
Azouz Begag

Articles and Essays
Susan Ireland--Representations of the Banlieues in the Contemporary Marseillais Polar
Eric Prieto--Rhetoric of the Belleville Novel
Dayna L. Oscherwitz--Pop Goes the Banlieue: Musical Métissage and the Articulations of a Multiculturalist Vision
Danielle Marx-Scouras--Rock the Hexagon
Johann Sadock--L'origine dévoilée du discours sur la violence et sur les relations interethniques dans le cinéma de Kassovitz
Laurence Christine Huughe--Jamal Debbouze, Ambassadeur de la banlieue Fiction
François Vergne--Seine St-Denis

Questionnaire

The term "banlieue" seems to have acquired a multiplicity of meanings, epecially in the past ten years or so. What does it represent for you today? // Le terme "banlieue" semble avoir acquis une multiplicité de sens, surtout ces dix dernières années. Que représente ou signifie ce terme pour vous aujourd'hui?

Sophie Body-Gendrot, Didier Daeninckx, Albert Memmi

Photography
Tadeusz Paczula, Text by Ernst Bens

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