Calixthe Beyala: black face(s) on French TV

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Hitchcott, Nicki (2004) Calixthe Beyala: black face(s) on French TV. Modern & Contemporary France, 12 (4). pp. 473-482. ISSN 1469-9869

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Abstract

As president and spokeswoman of the French black rights movement, Collectif Egalité, Cameroonian-born novelist Calixthe Beyala is committed to pushing for an improvement in the representation of black people on television in France. This article discusses the ways in which the Collectif has attempted to draw the French public's attention to the lack of 'visible minorities' on French TV. It takes as a test case the controversial figure of Beyala herself who has become something of a minor TV celebrity in her own right. What emerges as an apparent contradiction between Beyala's own media representation and the Collectif's campaign will serve to illustrate the ambivalent positioning of black citizens in contemporary France.

Item Type: Article
RIS ID: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1020844
Additional Information: This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Modern and Contemporary France in November 2004, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0963948042000284731
Keywords: Calixthe Beyala; Collectif Egalité; Television; France; Visible Minorities; Black French
Schools/Departments: University of Nottingham, UK > Faculty of Arts > School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies > Department of French and Francophone Studies
Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.1080/0963948042000284731
Depositing User: Hitchcott, Nicki
Date Deposited: 11 Apr 2016 13:58
Last Modified: 04 May 2020 20:31
URI: https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/id/eprint/32727

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