Charles Forsdick is Drapers Professor of French at the University of Cambridge. Claire Launchbury is Subject Coordinator for BA in Communication, Media, and Cultural Studies at Oxford Brookes.

• INTRODUCTIONCharles Forsdick and Claire LaunchburyPART I: LANGUAGEIntroductionCharles ForsdickChapter 1: Transnational French before the nationSimon GauntChapter 2: Frenches on walls and onlineRobert BlackwoodChapter 3: Transnational French and Translingual FilmGemma KingChapter 4: Reading British Fiction in France: The Case of Jonathan CoeHelena ChaddertonChapter 5: Unbearableyasser elhariryPART II: SPACESIntroductionClaire LaunchburyChapter 6: The French Hexagon: Defining the Shape of the NationDouglas SmithChapter 7: Transnational fraternitéClaire LaunchburyChapter 8: Paris and London Calling: the restaurant as transnational siteDebra KellyChapter 9: The ‘Real’ Capital of France: ‘Authentic’ ‘Colourful’ MarseilleChong BertillonChapter 10: French and Francophone Videogames in Transnational PerspectiveHugh Dauncey and Jonathan ErvinePART III: TEMPORALITIESIntroductionCharles ForsdickChapter 11: Imagined Communities of PrehistoryBill MarshallChapter 12: Translating Revolutionary LanguageSanja PerovicChapter 13: Beyond a national memory of slavery and abolitionCharles ForsdickChapter 14: French Museums, Where the World MeetsHerman LebovicsChapter 15: Transnational Memory: Art, Ethics and Politics in La Seine était rouge (Leila Sebbar, 1999) and Je Veux voir (Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, 2008)Max SilvermanChapter 16: Transnational Utopianism in French Futuristic Fiction: From Mercier’s L’An 2440 (1771) to Houellebecq’s Soumission (2015)Jacqueline DuttonPART IV: SUBJECTIVITIESIntroductionClaire LaunchburyChapter 17: Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in Nineteenth-Century FranceRichard HibbittChapter 18: Laïcité and belonging: Transnational PerspectivesMelanie AdrianChapter 19: French Food and Wine as Moveable FeastKolleen M. GuyChapter 20: Transnational approaches to language and sexualityDenis M. ProvencherChapter 21: Bande Dessinée: The Ninth Art of France that is not really FrenchLaurence GroveNotes on Contributors

"This book constitutes a remarkably powerful and necessary intervention which will find its place alongside other recent attempts at challenging narrow and stereotypical understandings of French culture. This critical intervention is a very welcome contribution to the efforts aimed at asserting France’s intrinsic diversity."Etienne Achille, Villanova University