LEADER 04816nam 22007092 450 001 9910798516703321 005 20170711104425.0 010 $a1-78694-520-7 010 $a1-78138-480-0 035 $a(CKB)3710000000777013 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4616270 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781781384800 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001992552 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4616270 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11240941 035 $a(OCoLC)956277686 035 $a(PPN)226365328 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000777013 100 $a20170307d2015|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBranding the 'beur' author $eminority writing and the media in France, 1983-2013 /$fKathryn A. Kleppinger$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aLiverpool :$cLiverpool University Press,$d2015. 215 $a1 online resource (xi, 271 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aContemporary French and Francophone Cultures ;$v36 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Jul 2017). 311 $a1-78138-196-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aAuthorship at a crossroads : the changing faces of French writing, 1983-2013 -- Mehdi Charef and the invention of beur writing -- Competing visions of minority authorship : Azouz Begag and Farida Belghoul -- Eyewitness narratives and the creation of the beurette -- Rachid Djai?dani and the shift from beur to banlieue writing -- Revising the beurette label : Fai?za Gue?ne's ongoing quest to reframe the reception of her work -- Sabri Louatah and the Qui fait la France? Collective : literature and politics since 2007. 330 $aBranding the Beur Author focuses on the mainstream media promotion of literature written by the descendants of North African immigrants to France (often called beurs). These conversations between journalists and 'beur' authors delve into contemporary debates such as the explosion of racism in the 1980s and the purported role of Islam in French society in the 1990s. But the interests of journalists looking for sensational subject matter also heavily shape the promotion and reception of these novels: only the 'beur' authors who employ a realist style to write about the challenges faced by the North African immigrant population in France-and who engage on-air with French identity politics and immigration-receive multiple invitations to participate in interviews. Previous scholarship has taken a necessary first step by analyzing the social and political stakes of this literature (using labels such as 'beur' and/or 'banlieue,' to designate its urban, economically distressed setting), but the book argues that we must move beyond this approach because it reproduces the selection criteria deployed by the media that determine which books receive the most commercial and critical support. By demonstrating how minority-based literary labels such as 'francophone' and 'postcolonial' are always already defined by the socio-political context in which books are published and promoted, the book establishes that these labels are tautological and cannot reflect the thematic and stylistic richness of beur (and other minority) production in France. 410 0$aContemporary French and francophone cultures ;$v36. 606 $aAfrican fiction (French)$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aFrench fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aFrench fiction$y21st century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aFrench literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aFrench literature$y21st century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aFrench fiction$xMinority authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aFrench literature$xMinority authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aMass media and minorities$zFrance 606 $aMass media and literature$zFrance 606 $aFrench literature 615 0$aAfrican fiction (French)$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aFrench fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aFrench fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aFrench literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aFrench literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aFrench fiction$xMinority authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aFrench literature$xMinority authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aMass media and minorities 615 0$aMass media and literature 615 0$aFrench literature. 676 $a840.71 700 $aKleppinger$b Kathryn A.$01504729 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910798516703321 996 $aBranding the 'beur' author$93733879 997 $aUNINA