Translingualism and Race Passing in Samba: On Fantasies of Migrant Identity in Contemporary France

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dc.contributor.authorKing, Gemma
dc.date.accessioned2020-01-29T00:15:24Z
dc.date.issued2019-12-21
dc.date.updated2020-12-20T07:38:16Z
dc.description.abstractWith its translingual dialogue in Arabic, English, French, Portuguese, Russian and Serbian, Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano's 2014 film Samba depicts the use of languages other than French as both a hindrance and an asset for migrants in contemporary France. Walid, the film's main Maghrebin character, engages in the practice of race passing by disguising himself as a Brazilian named Wilson to escape the racism he has experienced as an Algerian in France. However, in a key scene in which Samba and Walid are pursued by immigration police, the characters only manage to escape when Walid reveals his true identity and gains the trust of a maid through use of their native Arabic. This article draws on scholarship about the practice of race passing to conduct an analysis of Walid's hybrid, translingual identity. Mapping the film against a broader study of the importance of language in French films about passing, it reveals how the shifting identities of Samba's migrant characters can become sites in which axes of oppression and empowerment intersect.
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dc.identifier.issn0014-0767en_AU
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/200451
dc.language.isoen_AUen_AU
dc.publisherJohns Hopkins University Press
dc.rights© 2019 L’Esprit Créateur
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dc.source.urihttps://muse.jhu.edu/article/744081en_AU
dc.titleTranslingualism and Race Passing in Samba: On Fantasies of Migrant Identity in Contemporary France
dc.typeJournal article
local.bibliographicCitation.issue4en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage108en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage84en_AU
local.contributor.affiliationKing, Gemma, College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANUen_AU
local.contributor.authoremailu1030687@anu.edu.auen_AU
local.contributor.authoruidKing, Gemma, u1030687en_AU
local.description.embargo2037-12-31
local.description.notesImported from ARIESen_AU
local.identifier.absfor200306 - French Languageen_AU
local.identifier.absfor200511 - Literature in Frenchen_AU
local.identifier.absseo950203 - Languages and Literatureen_AU
local.identifier.ariespublicationu5786633xPUB1184en_AU
local.identifier.citationvolume59en_AU
local.identifier.doi10.1353/esp.2019.0044
local.identifier.uidSubmittedByu5786633en_AU
local.publisher.urlhttps://muse.jhu.eduen_AU
local.type.statusPublished Versionen_AU

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