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"France deserves to be free": constituting Frenchness in Marine Le Pen's National Front/National Rally

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dc.contributor.authorSeitz, Lauren, author
dc.contributor.authorAnderson, Karrin, advisor
dc.contributor.authorKhrebtan-Hörhager, Julia, committee member
dc.contributor.authorDaum, Courtenay, committee member
dc.date.accessioned2020-09-07T10:08:24Z
dc.date.available2020-09-07T10:08:24Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.abstractThis thesis employs constitutive rhetoric to analyze French far-right politician Marine Le Pen's discourse. Focusing on ten of Le Pen's speeches given between 2015 and 2019, I argue that Le Pen made use of Kenneth Burke's steps of scapegoating and purification as a way to rewrite French national identity and constitute herself as a revolutionary political leader. Le Pen first identified with the subjects and system that she scapegoats. Next, she cast out elites, globalists, and immigrants, identifying them as scapegoats of France's contemporary identity split. Finally, by disidentifying with the scapegoats, Le Pen constituted her followers as always already French patriots and herself as her leader. This allowed her to propose a new form of French national identity that was undergirded by far-right ideals and discourse of revolution. This thesis presents several implications for understanding contemporary French national identity, the far right, and women politicians. It also contributes to the project of internationalizing public address research in Communication Studies.
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dc.identifierSeitz_colostate_0053N_16082.pdf
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10217/211987
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherColorado State University. Libraries
dc.relation.ispartof2020-
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dc.subjectfar right
dc.subjectLe Pen, Marine
dc.subjectreactionary nationalism
dc.subjectFrance
dc.subjectconstitutive rhetoric
dc.subjectnational identity
dc.title"France deserves to be free": constituting Frenchness in Marine Le Pen's National Front/National Rally
dc.title.alternativeFrance deserves to be free: constituting Frenchness in Marine Le Pen's National Front/National Rally
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thesis.degree.disciplineCommunication Studies
thesis.degree.grantorColorado State University
thesis.degree.levelMasters
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Arts (M.A.)

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