Part 1 The Intelligentsia and New Conceptions of French Identity Chapter 2 The Marginality of Michel de Certeau Chapter 3 Disorienting Le Corbusier: Charles Edouard Jeanneret's 1911 Voyage d'Orient Chapter 4 France in the Wilderness Chapter 5 Opacity in the Films of Claire Denis Part 6 Black Diaspora and Créolisation Chapter 7 The French Language in the Face of Creolization Chapter 8 Kojève and Fanon: the Desire for Recognition and the Fact of Blackness Chapter 9 Historically Particular Uses of a Universal Subject Chapter 10 For a Caribbean Intertext: On Some Readings of Maryse Condé's Crossing the Mangrove Chapter 11 "Hereditary Antagonism": Race and Nation in Maurice Casseus's Viejo Part 12 Orientalism and the Maghrebian Presence in Post-Colonial France Chapter 13 Nationalism, Colonialism, and Ethnic Discourse in the Construction of French Identity Chapter 14 French Identity, Islam, and North Africans: Colonial Legacies, Post-Colonial Realities Chapter 15 Social Dynamics in Colonial Algeria: The Question of Pieds-Noirs Identity Chapter 16 Remembering the Jews of Algeria Part 17 Miscegenation, Degeneration, and other Metropolitan Anxieties Chapter 18 Decadence/Degeneration/ Créolité :Rachilde's La Jongleuse Chapter 18 Love, Labor, and Race: Colonial Men and White Women in France during the Great War Chapter 20 The Children of Belgium.