This volume takes the pulse of French post-coloniality by studying representations of trans-Mediterranean immigration to France in recent literature, television and film. The writers and filmmakers examined have found new ways to conceptualize the French heritage of immigration from North Africa and to portray the state of multiculturalism within and in spite of a continuing Republican framework. Their work deflates stereotypes, promotes respect for cultural and ethnic minorities and gives a new dignity to subjects supposedly located on the margins of the Republic. Establishing a productive dialogue with Marianne Hirschs ground-breaking concept of postmemory, this volume provides a much-needed vocabulary for rethinking the intergenerational legacy of trans-Mediterranean immigrants.

Véronique Machelidon is Associate Professor of Foreign Languages and Literatures at Meredith College in Raleigh, North CarolinaPatrick Saveau is Professor of French and Cultural Studies at Franklin University Switzerland

Introduction Véronique Machelidon and Patrick Saveau1 Qui fait la France? New configurations of Frenchness in contemporary urban fiction Steve Puig2 Breaking the chains of ethnic identity: Faïza Guène, Saphia Azzeddine, and Nadia Bouzid, or the birth of a new Maghrebi-French womens literature Patrick Saveau3 From daughter to mother, from sister to brother: building identities in Faïza Guènes novels Florina Matu4 The immigrant in Abdellatif Kechiches cinematic work: transcending the question of origins Emna Mrabet5 Seeking paths to existence in Rachid DjaïdanisRengaine Mona El Khoury6Beur andbanlieue television comedies: new perspectives on immigration Caroline Fache7 They had a dream: out-marching exclusion and hatred Jimia Boutouba8 Narrativizing foreclosed history in postmemorial fiction of the Algerian War in France: October 17, 1961, a case in point Michel Laronde9 Unearthing the fathers secret: postmemory and identity inharkiand pied-noir narratives Véronique Machelidon10 Representations of theharkis in contemporary French-language films Susan Ireland11 Loued revient toujours dans son lit: Franco-Maghrebi identity in Hassan Legzoulis filmTenja Ramona Mielusel12 Rewriting the memory of immigration: Samuel ZaouisSaint Denisbout du monde Mireille Le Breton13Harragas in Mediterraneanilliterature and cinema Hakim AbderrezakIndex