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Being-in-the-World in the Global Age: Marginal Spaces as Alternative Places in the Belgian–Moroccan Transnational Cityscape of Les Barons

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 August 2014

Valérie K. Orlando
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Abstract:

Europe’s immigrant populations are often represented on screen by both European and immigrant filmmakers as marginalized in the violent neighborhoods of peripheral urban areas in Paris, Lyon, London, and elsewhere. The film Les Barons (Nabil Ben Yadir, 2009) seeks to counter such stereotypes. The protagonists of Les Barons are multilingual, multicultural young men with proud ties to their families and the ability, at the same time, to straddle cultural registers and global perspectives as they live their cosmopolitan Dasein, or “Being-in-the-world.”

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Les populations immigrées en Europe sont souvent représentées à l'écran par des cinéastes européens et immigrants comme marginalisées et habitant les quartiers violents des périphéries urbaines de Paris, Lyon, Londres et ailleurs. Le film Les Barons (Nabil Ben Yadir, 2009) cherche à lutter contre de tels stéréotypes. Les protagonistes de Les Barons sont des jeunes hommes multilingues et multiculturels, fiers et soudés à leurs familles en même temps qu’ils vivent entre plusieurs registres culturels et perspectives mondiales qui les amènent à leur Dasein cosmopolite, ou leur “être-dans-le-monde.”

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Being-in-the-worldMoroccan literatureMaghrebiFrancophonepostcolonial
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African Studies Review , Volume 57 , Issue 2 , September 2014 , pp. 163 - 181
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Copyright © African Studies Association 2014 

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