Hexagonal variations : diversity, plurality and reinvention in contemporary France

Hexagonal Variations provides an essential overview of key debates about contemporary French society and culture. Concise, challenging and comprehensive, its chapters each address the processes of change and redefinition that characterise France today. Contributors analyse and situate cinematic, literary, online and visual texts, mediatic, political and everyday discourses, in each case pinpointing how diversity, plurality and reinvention inflect cultural and social evolution in France. The chapters in the collection share a key set of thematic concerns and raise topics for debate among schola. Read more... Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Towards a Preface; SECTION 1: PERSPECTIVES ON HEXAGONALITY; SECTION 2: EXPRESSING PLURALITY; SECTION 3: IDENTITY AND ETHNICITY; SECTION 4: MEASURING CULTURAL CHANGE IN CONTEMPORARY FRANCE; SECTION 5: REORDERING REGIONALITY; SECTION 6: PARIS AU PLURIEL; SECTION 7: HEXAGONAL VARIATIONS; Contributors' Biographies; Index