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Oana Sabo, The Migrant Canon in Twenty-First-Century France (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2018). Oana Sabo's The Migrant Canon in Twenty-First-Century France takes a novel approach to well-trod thematic ground. [...]

Felicia McCarren, French Moves: The Cultural Politics of Le Hip Hop (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013). In the concluding pages of French Moves, Felicia McCarren describes an experience she observed [...]

This article focuses on Alain Mabanckou's recent novelDemain j’aurai vingt ans(2010), which chronicles the daily adventures of Michel, a young boy growing up in Pointe-Noire, Congo in the 1970s. Michel reads French poetry and listens to French music, but he understands these cultural references in his own way. He also engages with the history and cultures of other regions of the world, as he listens to the news each night on his father's radio. Through this portrayal of daily life in Congo in the 1970s, Mabanckou's novel presents a new engagement with national cultures and narratives. French culture has never been distinctly French, he tells us, and neither France nor Congo exists without a consideration of its place in the world. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]