FRANCE-MAGHREB: THE JOURNEYSPATIO-TEMPORAL NARRATIVE VARIATIONS ON THE DIASPORIC SCREENByEvelyne Leffondre-MatthewsThis dissertation, within the field of Postcolonial Studies, focuses on the journey of immigration as reconstructed though diasporic contemporary film narrative in France. Xe analyze the works of Yamina Benguigui : Inch' Allah Dimanche (2001), Medhi Charef Fille de Keltoum (2001), et d' Ismaël Ferroukhi Le Grand Voyage (2004). These Franco-Maghrebi productions share the same diegetic frame, a space extended around the Mediterranean, but the narratives also include a temporal space as a supplement, where the audience is invited to decipher through layers of shared histories and cultures.Drawing on a wide pluridisciplinary and international theoretical support (including James Clifford, Mary Louise Pratt, Mireille Rosello, Mikhaïl Bakhtine, Stuart Hall, Hamid Naficy or Gilles Deleuze), we argue that, while actively contributing to the sociopolitical and cultural current debates on identity, these filmic works produced by Franco-Maghrebi diasporic artists offer new aesthetics that rejuvenate and expland the road movie genre into transnational, bilingual, bi-gendered forms.
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