Description
While multicultural comedies criticise hegemonic whiteness and outdated stances on race relations, they simultaneously perpetuate the colonial aesthetic register by deploying a "republican gaze" - an ironic meta-narrative perspective on ethnic minorities. Ewelina Pepiak analyses how gender and ethnicity are represented in seven contemporary French comedies (2008-2018) including mixed-race couples, focusing on a trope of metissage (biological and cultural mixing) and white femininity. As analyses of ethnic and gender representations remain scarce due to the slow emergence of postcolonial studies in France, this study adds significant insights to the postcolonial debate.
About the Author
Ewelina Pepiak, born in 1980, completed her doctorate at the Romance studies institute at the Justus-Liebig-Universitat Giessen and was a member of International PhD Programme Literary and Cultural Studies. From 2017-2023 she worked as a lecturer in literary, media and gender studies at Justus-Liebig-Universitat and at TU Darmstadt. Her research interests focus on French postcolonial studies, especially critical whiteness studies in literary and film analyses.
Book Information
ISBN 9783837673937
Author Ewelina Pepiak
Format Paperback
Page Count 330
Imprint Transcript Verlag
Publisher Transcript Verlag
Series FilmStudies
About the Author
Ewelina Pepiak, born in 1980, completed her doctorate at the Romance studies institute at the Justus-Liebig-Universitat Giessen and was a member of International PhD Programme Literary and Cultural Studies. From 2017-2023 she worked as a lecturer in literary, media and gender studies at Justus-Liebig-Universitat and at TU Darmstadt. Her research interests focus on French postcolonial studies, especially critical whiteness studies in literary and film analyses.
Book Information
ISBN 9783837673937
Author Ewelina Pepiak
Format Paperback
Page Count 330
Imprint Transcript Verlag
Publisher Transcript Verlag
Series FilmStudies
