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Writerly Identities in Beur Fiction and Beyond (Hardcover, New)
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Writerly Identities in Beur Fiction and Beyond (Hardcover, New)
Series: After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France
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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, Leila Sebbar,
Said Mohamed, Rachid Djaidani, 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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