Institutional authorship and cultural literacy -- Culture wars and critical debate around Azouz Begag -- Outline of the postcolonial absurd in Farida Belghoul's Georgette! -- Literary adventurers and the world -- New maps, new conversations with Leïla Sebbar -- Telling self and telling history in Saïd Mohamed's La honte sur nous -- Writing on the edge/from the periphery -- Moving in and beyond 'écrivain de banlieue' with Rachid Djaïdani -- Violence and poetry: Mohamed Razane and Qui fait la France?
Summary
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 the struggles of author-characters to attain self-identity and a place in the world through writing and authorship and engages this literary theme with a range of socio-cultural challenges facing contemporary France
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-182) and index
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English
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