“FRENCH” CULTURE by David Spieser Maîtrise
View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by D-Scholarship@Pitt THE POLITICS OF AESTHETICS: NATION, REGION AND IMMIGRATION IN CONTEMPORARY “FRENCH” CULTURE by David Spieser Maîtrise, English Literature and American Civilization, Université Lumière Lyon 2, 2004 M.A., French Literature, University of Pittsburgh, 2011 Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy University of Pittsburgh 2015 UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH THE KENNETH P. DIETRICH SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES This dissertation was presented by David Spieser It was defended on May 26, 2015 and approved by Dr. Giuseppina Mecchia, Associate Professor of French, Department of French and Italian Dr. Neil Doshi, Assistant Professor of French, Department of French and Italian Dr. David Pettersen, Assistant Professor of French, Department of French and Italian Dr. Susan Andrade, Associate Professor of English, Department of English ii THE POLITICS OF AESTHETICS: NATION, REGION AND IMMIGRATION IN CONTEMPORARY “FRENCH” CULTURE David Spieser, PhD University of Pittsburgh, 2015 This dissertation examines the tensions at work in contemporary French cultural politics between, on the one hand, homogenizing/assimilating hegemonic tendencies and, on the other hand, performances of heterogeneity/disharmony especially in literature but also in other artistic forms such as music. “Regional literature/culture” and “banlieue (ghetto) literature/culture” are studied as two major phenomena that performatively go against France’s “state monolingualism,” here understood as much as a “one-language policy” as the enforcement of “one discourse about Frenchness” (mono-logos).
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