Violence, altérité de l’intérieur et citoyenneté de seconde zone

Authors

Hervé Tchumkam, Southern Methodist University

Abstract

This article proposes an examination of violence in the French banlieues where riots erupted in the fall of 2005. Building on the observation that violence seems to have become the main determiner for banlieues inhabitants in the media and political discourses, the author scrutinizes Mohamed Razane’s Dit Violent (2006) in order to understand the status of young banlieue dwellers as outsiders within who are caught between second-class citizenship and exclusion from the French public political sphere. It is the contention of the author that the public construction of an enemy within imply shadows a socio-political reality, which is the invisibility of visible minorities in contemporary France.

Recommended Citation

Tchumkam, Hervé (2013) "Violence, altérité de l’intérieur et citoyenneté de seconde zone," Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature: Vol. 80: No. 1, Article 9.
Available at: https://crossworks.holycross.edu/pf/vol80/iss1/9