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Writerly Identities in Beur Fiction and Beyond
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2011
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Writerly Identities in Beur Fiction and Beyond explores the Beur/banlieue literary and cultural field from its beginnings in the 1980s to the present. It examines a set of postcolonial Bildungsroman novels by Azouz Begag, Farida Belghoul, Le la Sebbar, Sa d Mohamed, Rachid Dja dani, and Mohamed Razane. In these novels, the central characters are authors who struggle to find self-identity and a place in the world through writing and authorship. The book thus explores the different ways all these novels relate the process of 'becoming' to the process of writing. Neither is straightforward as the author-characters struggle to put their lives into words, settle upon a genre of writing, and adopt an authorial persona. Each chapter of Writerly Identities in Beur Fiction and Beyond focuses on a given author's own relationship to writing before assessing his or her use of the author-character as a proxy. In so doing, the study as a whole explores a set of literary questions (genre, textual authority, reception) and engages them against the backdrop of socio-cultural challenges facing contemporary French society. These include debates on education, cultural literacy, diversity and equal opportunity, and the banlieue environment. Finally, it argues in relation to the authors and novels in question for the particular relevance of 'rooted and vernacular' cosmopolitanism, which suggests both that exploration of the world must begin at home and that stories are crucial for such explorations.
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Edition
1/2011
Copyright Year
2011
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-4361-2
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-4363-6
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
189
Product Type
Monograph
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Acknowledgments No access
Preface No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 22
1 Culture Wars and Critical Debate around Azouz Begag No access
2 Outline of the Postcolonial Absurd in Farida Belghoul’s Georgette! No access
3 New Maps, New Conversations with Leïla Sebbar No access
4 Telling Self and Telling History in Saïd Mohamed’s La Honte sur nous No access
5 Moving In and Beyond “écrivain de banlieue” with Rachid Djaïdani No access
6 Violence and Poetry: Mohamed Razane and Qui fait la France? No access
