Abstract
ABSTRACT This article attempts to bring to light the process of identification among diasporic Moroccan-French subjects through analysing Souad El Bouhati's debut feature film Française (French Girl, 2008). With a postcolonially-inflected concern, I shall delve into how the film defines identity as an entity that has to do with becoming, not with being. Born and raised in France, Sofia, the protagonist, knows nothing about Morocco other than being her parents' home country. As she has the feeling of being more French than Moroccan, she keeps identifying with France; that is why she struggles to stay and, later on, return there. Focusing on the heroine's journey, French Girl highlights how her identification shifts over time from being French to becoming Moroccan. Rejecting to be involuntarily moved to her parents' homeland at the narrative's very beginning, Sofia ends up preferring of her own free will settling in Morocco to returning to metropolitan France. Yet, she has not altogether got rid of her Frenchness. Neither purely French nor purely Moroccan, Sofia, therefore, exemplifies the hybrid state mostly characterising today's Franco-Moroccan citizens.
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