Political Disaffection And Araby The Case Study Of Qu ...

Political Disaffection and Postcolonialism in Contemporary France The Case Study of Qu’Allah bà ©nisse la France In his ‘Prisons et Asiles dans le Mà ©canisme du Pouvoir (1974) M.Foucault offers a key insight into the methodology of his own work: â€Å"I would like my books to be a kind of tool-box which others can rummage through to find a tool which they can use however they wish in their own area... I would like the little volume that I want to write on disciplinary systems to be useful to an educator, a warden, a magistrate, a conscientious objector. I don t write for an audience, I write for users, not readers†. In this essay, I aim at carrying out a parallel operation by deploying two critical theory terms, postcolonialism and marxism, so as to shed light on the cultural production Qu’Allah bà ©nisse la France (2014). In a nutshell, this film, itself an adaptation of the autobiographical book Qu Allah bà ©nisse La France (Abd Al Malik) revolves around the introspective and creative journey of Rà ©gis, a gifted young black born to immigrants and brought up by his Catholic mum alongside two brothers in the city of Strasbourg. The film opens in black and white, like all fairy tales: Once upon a time†¦Then it leads us through the devastating poverty, unemployment, wrath and racism suffered in the Neuhof suburbs of the city of Strasbourg. Here, Rà ©gis will rise through the vicissitudes of delinquency (petty crime), rap and Islam to