Brian Schiff, Mathilde Toulemonde, and Carolina Porto
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199732074
- eISBN:
- 9780199933457
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199732074.003.0010
- Subject:
- Psychology, Social Psychology
This chapter argues that hybrid identities are a social construction, embedded in the cultural world, and worked out over time in concert with others. By placing relationships at the center of our ...
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This chapter argues that hybrid identities are a social construction, embedded in the cultural world, and worked out over time in concert with others. By placing relationships at the center of our understanding of how culture and identity meet, one can begin to describe the processes that structure mixed identities. Mixed identity is created, nourished, and sustained in close social relationships. Using interviews with two Muslim-Jewish couples, the authors describe the dynamics of mixed identity in the context of long-term committed relationships. In particular, the chapter focuses on the connection between the “couple’s story,” how the couple works out a common story, and personal identity. The authors argue that the plotline of the couple’s story is a critical point of reference in the formation of personal identity, opening or closing possibilities for self identification.Less
This chapter argues that hybrid identities are a social construction, embedded in the cultural world, and worked out over time in concert with others. By placing relationships at the center of our understanding of how culture and identity meet, one can begin to describe the processes that structure mixed identities. Mixed identity is created, nourished, and sustained in close social relationships. Using interviews with two Muslim-Jewish couples, the authors describe the dynamics of mixed identity in the context of long-term committed relationships. In particular, the chapter focuses on the connection between the “couple’s story,” how the couple works out a common story, and personal identity. The authors argue that the plotline of the couple’s story is a critical point of reference in the formation of personal identity, opening or closing possibilities for self identification.
Leslie Kealhofer-Kemp
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781786941138
- eISBN:
- 9781789629255
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781786941138.003.0012
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History
This chapter examines Rachid Djaïdani’s Rengaine [Hold Back] (2012) and Amelle Chahbi’s Amour sur place ou à emporter [Take-Away Romance] (2014), the only French feature films to date that focus on ...
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This chapter examines Rachid Djaïdani’s Rengaine [Hold Back] (2012) and Amelle Chahbi’s Amour sur place ou à emporter [Take-Away Romance] (2014), the only French feature films to date that focus on couples in which neither person is a majority-ethnic character (one is black, the other is of Maghrebi descent). Though stylistically very different, both films explore the place of and relationship between diverse minority-ethnic groups in France through the portrayal of these mixed couples. In doing so, they offer new perspectives on the treatment of mixed couples in French cinema while exposing complicated dynamics that exist between different post-migratory postcolonial minorities. Rengaine and Amour sur place ou à emporter condemn racism and discrimination that exist between members of these groups and underscore the respective filmmakers’ desire to portray different kinds of diversity than has previously been seen on the big screen.Less
This chapter examines Rachid Djaïdani’s Rengaine [Hold Back] (2012) and Amelle Chahbi’s Amour sur place ou à emporter [Take-Away Romance] (2014), the only French feature films to date that focus on couples in which neither person is a majority-ethnic character (one is black, the other is of Maghrebi descent). Though stylistically very different, both films explore the place of and relationship between diverse minority-ethnic groups in France through the portrayal of these mixed couples. In doing so, they offer new perspectives on the treatment of mixed couples in French cinema while exposing complicated dynamics that exist between different post-migratory postcolonial minorities. Rengaine and Amour sur place ou à emporter condemn racism and discrimination that exist between members of these groups and underscore the respective filmmakers’ desire to portray different kinds of diversity than has previously been seen on the big screen.
