Helena Chadderton is Lecturer in French at the University of Hull. She is the author of a monograph on the contemporary French writer Marie Darrieussecq, and her current research interests include engagement and the contemporary French novel, and transnational publishing.Angela Kimyongur is Senior Lecturer in French at the University of Hull. She is currently working on French crime fiction, and writing a monograph on the politics of contemporary French crime fiction.

"The editors' aim to open up debate about the nature of political commitment in French and Francophone culture today is effectively served by this well-focused, interesting and incisive collection of essays. Engagement with the contemporary world and its power structures is shown to be a driving force across an impressively wide and varied range of institutional and cultural practices."--Margaret Atack, University of Leeds ; "Any of the essays would easily stand alone for research or classroom use, and undergraduate and graduate students alike would likely appreciate and benefit from exposure to the wide range of source material employed here." Kathryn Kleppinger, The George Washington University, H France Review

• List of IllustrationsIntroduction - Helena Chadderton and Angela KimyongürPart 1: Culture in Crisis? Evolving Cultural Forms in the 21st CenturyChapter 1: Engagement in la fiction d’affaires: François Bon and Thierry Beinstingel. - Helena ChaddertonChapter 2: Evolutions of engagement: Renaud and la chanson engagée in 21st-Century France. - Rachel HowarthChapter 3: ‘Radical’ Independent Presses in France at the Turn of the 21st Century: a New Form of Political and Intellectual engagement? - Sophie NoëlChapter 4: Charity engagements: Television Coverage of Les Restos du Coeur and Les Enfoirés. - Chris TinkerChapter 5: Plantu: caricaturiste engagé? - Sam WilkinsonChapter 6: Criminal engagements: Dominique Manotti and the Politics of Crime Writing. - Angela KimyongürPart 2: New Responses to New Crises: France and the Francophone World in the 21st CenturyChapter 7: Crime and Comedy: Dominique Sylvain’s Ingrid Diesel and Lola Jost Series Post 9/11. - Andrea HynynenChapter 8: Michel Houellebecq, Masculinity and the Manipulation of Crisis. - Clive HunterChapter 9: Voicing the Silence: Exposing French Neo-Colonial History and Practices in Mathieu Pernot’s Les Migrants. - Sophie WattChapter 10: Engagement au marteau: Michel Onfray’s Université Populaire. - Jean-Frédéric HennuyChapter 11:New Aesthetics of engagement: Fatou Diome’s Kétala. - Charlotte Baker

Helena Chadderton is Lecturer in French at the University of Hull. She is the author of a monograph on the contemporary French writer Marie Darrieussecq, and her current research interests include engagement and the contemporary French novel, and transnational publishing.Angela Kimyongur is Senior Lecturer in French at the University of Hull. She is currently working on French crime fiction, and writing a monograph on the politics of contemporary French crime fiction.

"The editors' aim to open up debate about the nature of political commitment in French and Francophone culture today is effectively served by this well-focused, interesting and incisive collection of essays. Engagement with the contemporary world and its power structures is shown to be a driving force across an impressively wide and varied range of institutional and cultural practices."--Margaret Atack, University of Leeds ; "Any of the essays would easily stand alone for research or classroom use, and undergraduate and graduate students alike would likely appreciate and benefit from exposure to the wide range of source material employed here." Kathryn Kleppinger, The George Washington University, H France Review

• List of IllustrationsIntroduction - Helena Chadderton and Angela KimyongürPart 1: Culture in Crisis? Evolving Cultural Forms in the 21st CenturyChapter 1: Engagement in la fiction d’affaires: François Bon and Thierry Beinstingel. - Helena ChaddertonChapter 2: Evolutions of engagement: Renaud and la chanson engagée in 21st-Century France. - Rachel HowarthChapter 3: ‘Radical’ Independent Presses in France at the Turn of the 21st Century: a New Form of Political and Intellectual engagement? - Sophie NoëlChapter 4: Charity engagements: Television Coverage of Les Restos du Coeur and Les Enfoirés. - Chris TinkerChapter 5: Plantu: caricaturiste engagé? - Sam WilkinsonChapter 6: Criminal engagements: Dominique Manotti and the Politics of Crime Writing. - Angela KimyongürPart 2: New Responses to New Crises: France and the Francophone World in the 21st CenturyChapter 7: Crime and Comedy: Dominique Sylvain’s Ingrid Diesel and Lola Jost Series Post 9/11. - Andrea HynynenChapter 8: Michel Houellebecq, Masculinity and the Manipulation of Crisis. - Clive HunterChapter 9: Voicing the Silence: Exposing French Neo-Colonial History and Practices in Mathieu Pernot’s Les Migrants. - Sophie WattChapter 10: Engagement au marteau: Michel Onfray’s Université Populaire. - Jean-Frédéric HennuyChapter 11:New Aesthetics of engagement: Fatou Diome’s Kétala. - Charlotte Baker

Helena Chadderton is Lecturer in French at the University of Hull. She is the author of a monograph on the contemporary French writer Marie Darrieussecq, and her current research interests include engagement and the contemporary French novel, and transnational publishing.Angela Kimyongur is Senior Lecturer in French at the University of Hull. She is currently working on French crime fiction, and writing a monograph on the politics of contemporary French crime fiction.

"The editors' aim to open up debate about the nature of political commitment in French and Francophone culture today is effectively served by this well-focused, interesting and incisive collection of essays. Engagement with the contemporary world and its power structures is shown to be a driving force across an impressively wide and varied range of institutional and cultural practices."--Margaret Atack, University of Leeds ; "Any of the essays would easily stand alone for research or classroom use, and undergraduate and graduate students alike would likely appreciate and benefit from exposure to the wide range of source material employed here." Kathryn Kleppinger, The George Washington University, H France Review

• List of IllustrationsIntroduction - Helena Chadderton and Angela KimyongürPart 1: Culture in Crisis? Evolving Cultural Forms in the 21st CenturyChapter 1: Engagement in la fiction d’affaires: François Bon and Thierry Beinstingel. - Helena ChaddertonChapter 2: Evolutions of engagement: Renaud and la chanson engagée in 21st-Century France. - Rachel HowarthChapter 3: ‘Radical’ Independent Presses in France at the Turn of the 21st Century: a New Form of Political and Intellectual engagement? - Sophie NoëlChapter 4: Charity engagements: Television Coverage of Les Restos du Coeur and Les Enfoirés. - Chris TinkerChapter 5: Plantu: caricaturiste engagé? - Sam WilkinsonChapter 6: Criminal engagements: Dominique Manotti and the Politics of Crime Writing. - Angela KimyongürPart 2: New Responses to New Crises: France and the Francophone World in the 21st CenturyChapter 7: Crime and Comedy: Dominique Sylvain’s Ingrid Diesel and Lola Jost Series Post 9/11. - Andrea HynynenChapter 8: Michel Houellebecq, Masculinity and the Manipulation of Crisis. - Clive HunterChapter 9: Voicing the Silence: Exposing French Neo-Colonial History and Practices in Mathieu Pernot’s Les Migrants. - Sophie WattChapter 10: Engagement au marteau: Michel Onfray’s Université Populaire. - Jean-Frédéric HennuyChapter 11:New Aesthetics of engagement: Fatou Diome’s Kétala. - Charlotte Baker