French Civilization and Its Discontents

Peer, Shanny

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“…By the 1990s, references to France had shrunk to 25% of their number in the early 1890s. The implication, a fear echoed by many French scholars and teachers in the United States (Peer, 1995), is that France has become effete, irrelevant, or almost invisible in the eyes of many Americans.…”

Section: Franco-american Nationalist Imaginingsmentioning

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Francophobia, Anti-Americanism: Narratives of the Trans-Atlantic Other in French and U.S. News on Abortion-Related Issues

Husting

King

2005

Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies

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This article examines the interplay of abortion and nationalism in French and U.S. print news discussions of abortion-related issues. U.S. news stories on RU-486 and French news stories on prolife direct action protesters are rife with qualifiers designating each issue as a foreign one. In American media, RU-486 is the French pill; in French media, protesters are American inspired/mobilized. Together, these cases constitute a site for the recurrent construction of the relation between nationhood, national identity, and moral goodness. In each case, media narratives of abortion-related issues reveal that more is at stake than reproductive rights issues. The authors argue that discourses on abortion are grounded in politics of nationalism that shore up the boundaries of the homeland and anchor the distinction between public and private spheres through a discourse of opposition to foreign cultural invaders. The articulation of moral conflict over abortion and myths of foreign origins situate the national collectivity as a good, innocent victim of corrupt outside influence

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Section: Franco-american Nationalist Imaginingsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Francophobia, Anti-Americanism: Narratives of the Trans-Atlantic Other in French and U.S. News on Abortion-Related Issues

Husting

King

2005

Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies

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Beneath the Rising Sun: “Frenchness” and the Archaeology of Desire

Dawdy

Weyhing

2008

Int J Histor Archaeol

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This article takes the case of "rouge pot" fragments found in an archaeological context in New Orleans' French Quarter associated with the circa 1822 Rising Sun Hotel and investigates the discourses and desires that shape our interpretations of artifacts. We argue that archaeological, historiographic, and public desires overlap and inform one another in a complex web of relations. In New Orleans, the particular web into which the archaeology of cosmetic jars and hotel sites can fall is spun by the ways in which the former French colonial capital is sexualized in both textbooks and folk songs.

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Documenting the Periphery: The Short Films of Faïza Guène

Thomas¹

2010

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French Civilization and Its Discontents

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Francophobia, Anti-Americanism: Narratives of the Trans-Atlantic Other in French and U.S. News on Abortion-Related Issues

Francophobia, Anti-Americanism: Narratives of the Trans-Atlantic Other in French and U.S. News on Abortion-Related Issues

Beneath the Rising Sun: “Frenchness” and the Archaeology of Desire

Documenting the Periphery: The Short Films of Faïza Guène

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