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Bumidom (1963-1982) and Its Afterlives: Literature, Memory and Migration

Bumidom (1963-1982) and Its Afterlives: Literature, Memory and Migration - Hardcover

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Availability:In StockContributor:Antonia WimbushSeries:New Directions in Francophone Studies: Diversity, Decolonisation, QueernessPublish date:4/30/2025Pages:256
Language:EnglishPublisher:Edinburgh University PressISBN-13:9781399521574ISBN-10:1399521578UPC:9781399521574Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Subjects & Themes, Modern, Comparative LiteratureBook Topic:Politics, 21st CenturySize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.63 inchesWeight:1.1905Product ID:SCMF2ZVRPQ
This book investigates cultural representations of the BUMIDOM (Bureau pour le développement des migrations dans les départements d'outre-mer), a state-organised migration scheme which brought workers from Guadeloupe, Martinique, Réunion and French Guiana to mainland France between 1963 and 1982. It argues that the French government has not sufficiently commemorated the BUMIDOM through national frameworks such as museums and education systems. This would mean admitting that participants, who were French citizens, were treated as racialised migrants and second-class-citizens. Through a series of original case studies spanning life writing, novels, films, bande dessinée, children's fiction and music, the study demonstrates that it is cultural practitioners who, in the absence of adequate state representation, are undertaking this important memory work themselves. In a period in which Black identity is increasingly entering public debate in France, the book raises urgent questions about what it means to be a French citizen and a racial minority.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Edinburgh University PressISBN-13:9781399521574ISBN-10:1399521578UPC:9781399521574Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Subjects & Themes, Modern, Comparative LiteratureBook Topic:Politics, 21st CenturySize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.63 inchesWeight:1.1905Product ID:SCMF2ZVRPQ
Wimbush, Antonia: - Antonia Wimbush is Lecturer in French Studies in the School of Languages and Linguistics at the University of Melbourne. From 2020 to 2023 she was a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Department of Languages, Cultures and Film at the University of Liverpool. Her previous publications include Autofiction: A Female Francophone Aesthetic of Exile (2021) and Queer(y)ing Bodily Norms in Francophone Culture (2021), co-edited with Polly Galis and Maria Tomlinson. Her research interests include French Caribbean literature, literary representations of exile and migration, memory studies, and gender studies.
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

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