Artistic (Self)-Representations of Islam and Muslims

Ramona Mielusel is Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. She is interested in interdisciplinary and comparative approaches to Contemporary French and Francophone Cultural Studies with a special focus on immigration, transnationalism, multiculturalism, postcolonial studies and identity politics. She is the author of Langue, espace et (re)composition identitaire dans les oeuvres de Mehdi Charef, Farid Boudjellal et Tony Gatlif (L’Harmattan, 2015) and Franco-Maghrebi Artists of the 2000s. Transnational Narratives and Identities (Brill Publishers, 2018) as well as of several articles and book chapters. She co-edited with Dr. Simona Emilia Pruteanu the volume Citizenship and Belonging in France and North America. Multicultural Perspectives on Political, Cultural and Artistic Representations of Immigration (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020).

• Chapter 1: Introduction.- Part I: Cinematic Representations of Islam: From Imams to Radicals.- Chapter 2: Imams and Audience in Kaouther Ben Hania’s Niche Filmwork.- Chapter 3: Representations of Radical Islam in Merzak Allouache’s most Recent Films.- Chapter 4: De-westernizing the Gaze on Islam and the Veil in French and Franco-Algerian Films – Abderrahmene Bourenane and Delphine Letort.- Chapter 5: Nicolas Boukhrief’s Made in France: Nuancing the Mediatized Approach to Islamic Terrorism.- Part II: Veiling, Islamic and Artistic Symbols and Far-Right Politics in Literary Representations of Islam and Muslims.- Chapter 6: Jeux de rubans (2011) by Emna Belhaj Yahia or the (Un)Veiling of Modern Tunisia.- Chapter 7: Eclipsing the Sun in Amira-Géhanne Khalfallah’s Le Naufrage de La Lune: Re-Appropriating Islamic Power Dynamics Through Allegory and Self-Representation.- Chapter 8: In Praise of the Transgressive Muslim Body: Portraits of Moroccan Chikhates.- Chapter 9:Islam and Far-Right Politics in Post-Contemporary Francophone Speculative Fiction: An Ethical Call to Resistance or Revival of French Orientalism?.- Part III: Representations of Islam in Music, Comic Series and Visual Arts.- Chapter 10: (P)raising Islam: When French Muslim rappers advocate for peace, love and unity in a Multicultural France.- Chapter 11: Drawing the Muslim Self: Muslim Citizenship and Contemporary Islam in France.- Chapter 12: Franco-Maghrebi Perspectives on the Islamic “Body” in a Contemporary Artistic Context: Kader Attia and Zoulikha Boubdellah.- Chapter 13: Conclusion.