- Title
- Variations on the hexagon: getting the measure of culture change in contemporary France
- Creator
- Pratt, Murray; Rolls, Alistair
- Relation
- Hexagonal Variations: Diversity, Plurality and Reinvention in Contemporary France p. 21-42
- Relation
- Faux Titre 359
- Relation
- http://www.brill.com/products/book/hexagonal-variations#TOC_1
- Publisher
- Rodopi
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2011
- Description
- Perhaps more than any other nation, modem France is an entity which has been understood through symbolism. While it is commonplace for countries and empires, states and federations, to espouse myth or allegory as they reach for self-definition, and, as often as not, self-justification, the trimmings and trappings of French statehood have been frequently deployed, reaccentuating the national mission with each new Republic. From Marianne to 'la Marseillaise', the 'tricolore' to the tripartite motto Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité, symbols of French national belonging or statehood abound. Listed on the official website of the French Presidency (www.elysee.fr) alongside Bastille Day itself and the Seal (redesigned in 1792), each of them resurrects an association with the French Revolution of 1789, howsoever faint the relevance, and memory, of this foundational moment may be becoming as the sole point of reference and measure for the plural, multi-ethnic, and cannily branded player and product that is contemporary France.
- Subject
- french literature; literature studies; Francophone; French culture
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1325529
- Identifier
- uon:25292
- Identifier
- ISBN:9789042032453
- Language
- eng
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